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"Please forgive TPYOS." "Sent from my little handheld." "Sent from my smartphone - please excuse brevity and grammatical errors." "Messed from my processor 1.21 gigawatt." And, the most annoyed: "sent from my iPhone. Please consider the environment before printing this email." It's official: It's time to retire, once and for all, the custom odious mobile email signature.

Do not deceive me: I love the free expression, creativity and individuality - especially when it finds its way into the monotony otherwise boring of business life. I like a solid line of striking as much as the next guy. And I like any reminder of the movieBack to the future, Even if he came out for several years before my birth.

But, guys-it's 2017. Next month, the iPhone will officially celebrate its 10^e birthday. Smartphones - also known as today's computers, records, newspapers, cameras, road cards, vocal recorders, gameboys, iPods, banking boxes and televisions - are no longer a novelty. They are installed in our daily lives,For the best or for the worst. We do not need Goofy reminders that you type on a smartphone and that you may miss a word or two. And hell, if you believe that the market research businessGartner, There is a good Smartphone chance will become your main computer very soon.

But I get it. Your mobile email signature served a very real goal. It's a useful line on the end of your emails leaving your colleagues, your customers and your other recipients know that you send it from your handheld, and so you know,Ready to go,Type quickly,andDo not officially write as you would be otherwise.

But if we keep it, I think it's time to collectively choose a universal mobile email signature that we all can agree on.

In this spirit, we contacted Ben Dattner, an executive coach, an organizational and founding psychologist of Dattner Consulting, to obtain at least one professional opinion on what should be the best signature of the email smartphone. "In general, you want to have positive and relevant associations as a working professional, and your email signature is just another opportunity to reiterate," here's who I am and that's what I'm doing, " he says.

On your device, Dattner says you must absolutely include your name, your business and your title. (Good.) If you are comfortable with that, you must also include your phone number, your email and your mailing address. (Included.) And if you work in a legally sensitive law law, has definitely a legal non-responsibility: "this e-mail and any file transmitted with it are confidential ..."

Understood. But what should be the signature?

"Sent from the road."

Ok, I admit that I did not see it coming. But the more I look at it and let me run, the more I think it's a beautiful idea. Here's why did not choose it.

The little sentence remembers, simultaneously, Hemingway (succinct but emphatic) and Kerouac (all the "road part"), lending serious literary credits to what the text is in your message. It is more creative than the slightly pretentious version "sent from my mobile". In addition, with "sent from the road", you avoid unintentional - and without pay, at this shilling, a product (we look at you, "sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy Smartphone").

But Dattner is quick to warn us that the signature of mobile email can be dated.

"Who knows?" he says. "Maybe at some point, Apple or Samsung will subsidize the cost of your phone if you advertise you send an email from one of their devices."

It always beats "Please forgive any tpyos" any day.

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