I first started noticing the little “green” appends to e-mail signatures about two years ago. You’ve all seen them: “Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.” I found them amusing at first. Now they are just annoying. But they got me to think about a few things.

In the first place I never print e-mail–unless there is some extraordinary reason to do so. And I thus assumed that the average information worker did the same. OK, I did have a CEO who had his secretary print out every one of his e-mail messages for his perusal. But this guy also used paper 9 1/4″ x 11 7/8″ ledger sheets instead of spreadsheet software to analyze financials, so I figured this was an anomaly.

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