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Sincerely devoted to email signoffs | Letters
Publisher description: Letters: Jane Rosenthal and Siobhan McGovern respond to an article advocating for the death of email signoffs
The Guardian | Nov 2, 2026 | Guardian staff reporter
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What a miserable whinge Tom Gill has subjected us to on the residual flourishes and formalities that linger on in salutations and signoffs in emails (The email sign-off is archaic – it needs to go. True, they are often quaint and archaic, but let’s have them – flourishes and snidely terse signoffs greatly enrich and inform. It’s 100% on the money – absolutely hilarious!
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