It’s Time To Fight Back Against The Footer Fascists
18th March 2011
You’ve seen them, I’ve seen them. We’ve all seen them. Those screamingly pompous email footers that IT departments append to millions – billions? – of emails every day, urging us to “Consider the environment!” before asking “Do you really need to print this email?”
I’ve become a real fan of Paul Carr at TechCrunch.
Fuck the environment. Print this email immediately. And then burn it.
Oh, I know the feeling.
So, for the sake of human civilization, I urge you to join the fight. Update your footer right now and help us take back our inboxes from the footer fascists. And if you work for a big company’s IT department… well… go on… you know you want to…