No one is telling anyone not to do anything. Several people are asking everyone to please refrain from including signature tags that are off-putting to many people. A new testament quote is really only apropos in a Christian community. While there may be several Christians on this list, there are also several other cultures represented here as well. Telling me that I don't have to read someone's tag line, or even their posts, is an inadequate solution. I'm here to read about, learn, question about piano technology, not theological tidbits. If you're, say, Christian/Lutheran and go to, say, a Jewish synagogue, do you (intentionally) play Christian/Lutheran hymns when you're done tuning? Do you head to the office and tell them they need to find Jesus? I doubt it. You don't do it to your customers, why assail your colleagues, many/most of whom you do not know, with it? Some of us are Mormons, some Jewish, some Muslim, some atheist, some Unitarian Universalist. For all we know, some may follow Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement or be members of L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology. Perhaps the majority of techs in the United States attend Christian church, but our list host (PTG) is an international organization. The list reaches anyone who cares about piano tech, anywhere there is Internet access, anywhere on the planet. It's called Diversity. Recognize it. Respect it. Celebrate it. <div>On 10/29/07, Mark Purney <<a href="mailto:mark.purney@mesapiano.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> mark.purney@mesapiano.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Appropriate boundaries? His tag line didn't contain profanity or a tasteless joke. It was an encouraging quote from the New Testament! How is that harmful? If anything, I think that telling someone he can't put a Bible verse in his own email signature is an inappropriate crossing of a boundary. <a href="mailto:paulrevenkojones@aol.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">paulrevenkojones@aol.com </a> wrote: > John: > > My signature, which only baffled people, had no religious/political > content. I like a lot of the signatures I see here, but think there > are appropriate boundaries that should be observed. Don't you? I can > think of lots of tag lines that could be used according to your > formula; I'm sure you wouldn't want to see them. > > Regards, > > Paul -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. </blockquote></div>