Smashing Magazine has a great post on how to do email signatures right. It can be really painful when people have loaded their email signatures with all sorts of information or to little.

Some of the golden guidelines that I noted include -

Make Sure to Include…

• Your name,
• Your company and position,
• How to get in touch with you.

No need to include 10 different ways to get in touch with you. As in website design, less is more; and then they’ll know which way you prefer to be contacted. Go to two or three lines, with a maximum of 72 character per line (many email applications have a maximum width of 80 characters, so limit the length to avoid unsightly wrapping). An optional fourth line could be your company address, but use caution if you work from home.

So in the effort to have good (correct) information about people lets get email signatures right.

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