[PW] Phrase or Sentence at end of email

[Charles Early]

I've seen this referred to as a tagline, a term which dates back to the 
prehistory of the internet.  E.g., see 
http://linuxgazette.net/issue15/sigrot.html.

At 09:22 AM 6/7/2007, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>is there a pedantic way of describing the sentence or phrase, often a
>quotation, with which some people end their emails. I used 'Colophon',
>but someone even more pedantic than me  criticised this usage.
>
>Eoin
>
>--
>--
>Eoin C. Bairéad
>Dublin, Ireland
>Áth Cliath, Éire
>_______________________________________________
>Project Wombat
>list at project-wombat.org
>http://www.project-wombat.org/

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