Why do people put their email addresses in their email signatures?

I don’t do that myself (I do include my website, which is also kind of a “well duh” move). My best guess is that it’s easy to cut and paste into an address book that way. My pet peeve is people who put something like “A message from Joe Blow” in the subject line. Speaking of “well duh”...

In corporate email environments you don’t see the email address unless you go digging. Instead when a message arrives or if you reply it shows From: XX, II or TO: XX, II

Thats all fine and good for when you have two people working for the same company but what happens when you have a 3rd Party enter the mix?

MrLaconic: Hey there perg do you know what xxii ‘s email address is?

perg: ::no mrlaconic I do not not because his name only appears at XX, II

@mrlaconic I’ve never had any trouble retrieving an e-mail addy in my various corporate environments, in-house or out-of-house. And then there’s always the “reply” button.

I always take it as a sign that they’re not really great with technology.

I guess it really depends on where you work then because where I wk (T-Mobile if you must know) it only shows the name Last, Fist unless you go digging through the email address book.

My point was to make it easier to share the information.

Probably to reinforce it. I don’t really know. Or what @papayalily said
My signature is a quote.

I have mine in my email signature at work. That way someone has the option of replying or just clicking on the email address in my signature (it becomes a link). I’ve never really thought about it. I will say that having the email in the signature makes life a lot easier for me in times when I need to grab someone’s information from their email and add it to a document like an address list, contact sheet or for someone’s Rolodex. I can just cut and paste. If it’s not there, I have to type it or cut and paste that line separately, instead of the whole shebang at once.

Long email threads that are forwarded to new parties will often keep the person’s “nickname” in the address field, but not their full email address. Happens in corporate environs all the time, especially if it originated from a different company than where you are.

For example, I can scroll down to the first message of an email chain that was originally sent to a different group of people. Several forwards later, and I can see that the basic header was from “Bob Jenkins”, but his email behind that name is lost.

Good thing he put his email address – bjenkins [at] randomcompany [dot] com – in his signature tagline.

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Even so, no, I don’t put my email addy in my signature.

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Related: do you speak your phone number when you call someone’s cell phone and get their voicemail? Same thing.

@papayalily On top of the reasons other have said, I put it because I know some people are not really great with technology, so I make it easier for them to find my address.

What bothers me the most, though, is when people don’t include their phone number.

Because when your email gets forwarded to someone else, your email address doesn’t necessarily show up in the quoted header information.

A combination of marketing and sake of ease. Having an e-mail address show up twice is better than none at all. I’ve forwarded messages from vendors to others that might be interested and cut out the communication they won’t be interested in culling through to get to the reason why I’m sending it to them.

As for ease, it’s more simple to copy all of their information from one location in the message and paste it into a contact list.

I put my email in my signature for two reasons.

One, as has been suggested, is because often in long threads or when third parties get copied on an email chain, they will not have your email.

Two, emails are printed out ALL THE TIME and given to someone else. The only way for them to know who to reply to in this case is if your email can be found in your signature.