Mr Andersson

About a year ago or so I received e-mails with the following message in its signature:

P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

(if you see the capital ‘P’ character in the beginning of the message, please read on…)

Now, one year after, I see this message more often.
Normally I try to avoid long e-mail signatures (which easily can get longer than the e-mail body), but due to the number of printed e-mails in the recycle bin in our printer room at work I believe this is a keeper.

When receiving an e-mail with this message it has also a small graphic besides it showing a small green tree and a road. This is actually not an image attached to the e-mail (which I really try to avoid in my e-mail signature, like the corporate logo etc.), as it’s the capital ‘P’ character in the WebDings font.

With that said, it won’t show up if you aren’t using Outlook or Internet Explorer or any other e-mail viewer with capabilities to display rich formatted text. For example, it won’t show up in Firefox.

Side-track:
It’s exactly the same with smileys. Ever read an e-mail on your mobile phone (using Pocket Outlook for instance) and you wondered about all the capital ‘J’ characters? The smiley is the symbol displayed when you type capital ‘J’ and use the Wingdings font.

I tried to find some info about this green message so I could copy it into my e-mail signature. Please see this blog post for more info! (and add the message to your e-mail signature today)