I'm thinking to add one-line advocacy items to the bottom of my e-mails, advocating various causes that I believe in. The idea is to be a cyber "bumper sticker." Below are some items that I thought were interesting and may use.

• The ASCII Ribbon Campaign. Stop HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments. http://www.asciiribbon.org/

• Too brief? Here's why! http://emailcharter.org/

• Why is this e-mail five sentences or less? http://five.sentenc.es/

• I welcome VRSE e-mail. http://vsre.info/

As of May 8, 2009, I've changed my OpenPGP signing key in response to concerns regarding the [future security of SHA-1][1]. My old key will expire 1 Jan 2011; please use the new one for future electronic correspondence.

  [1]: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/statement.html

Windows 7

The Free Software Foundation has several taglines parodying Microsoft's advertisements placed in the footer of e-mails sent from their Live Mail service.

Some of those that I liked:

• Windows 7 is a new era of restrictions. http://windows7sins.org

• Own your own computer. Don't use Windows 7. http://windows7sins.org

• New Windows 7: New Windows, same restrictions. Learn more: http://windows7sins.org

• New Windows 7: Simplify what we let you do everyday. Learn more: http://windows7sins.org

• New Windows 7: Double the DRM, Double the fun! Learn more: http://windows7sins.org

• New Windows 7: It's not the right system for you. Learn more: http://windows7sins.org

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