this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
-131 points (11.7% liked)

Technology

66892 readers
5085 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
-131
Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives — it’s time to stop using them. (theconversation.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
55 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Edit: A lot of people seem to hate on the article without reading it.

Here is a supporting scientific source, by the same author: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188825000863

The environmental impact of our online habits is far larger than most realize, and as digital communication continues to evolve, we must consider its long-term consequences on the environment and human life. We should take the easy steps of cutting wasteful energy use in our communications and it can start with eliminating email signatures.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ooh .. there's going to be a lot of fun had with this... I wonder if you can use blink tags and animated gifs .. strictly for educational purposes .. I'll be right back ..

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am in awe at the horrors of your genius.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just discovered another missing attribute from my signature:

Hi mom!

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's important to acknowledge your primary audience.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Might have to consider some ~~Oscar~~ generic awards ceremony worthy credits before long, mind you, finding the name of the obstetrician who birthed me is going to be a challenge.

I also noticed a distinct lack of family genealogy in your signature, if it wasn't for our primordial ooze ancestors, neither of us would be here today.

This is going to require "some" research.

Hmm .. I wonder if embedded YouTube iframes work .. purely for bandwidth testing purposes of course.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Boss: "Your emails seem a little terse lately. Is everything okay?"

Me: "Yeah, it's just that IT put a limit on email sizes to protect bandwidth."

Boss: "Yes, but it's 25MB and 60,000 words."

Me: "I know, right?! That leaves me with like 10 words."

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For the lack multiple upvotes, here's a "silver" coin.

Lemmy Silver

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As someone who remembers the days before reddit silver, you have no idea how much this means to me. Thank you.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now you can consider yourself an "Award Winning Author".

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'm screenshotting this as proof.