# I'm willing to wait, but curious. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 6, 2000, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-willing-to-wait-but-curious/18736 "2000-05-06T04:36:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-willing-to-wait-but-curious/18736/1 "2000-05-06T04:36:51Z")
Using Netscape, what does it mean “Error 714, signature unavailable with your current browser”? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-willing-to-wait-but-curious/18736/2 "2000-05-06T22:01:08Z")
It means that someone has a sig that reads “Error 714, signature unavailable with your current browser.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-willing-to-wait-but-curious/18736/3 "2000-05-07T00:02:19Z")
Thanks, that’s a great load off my mind. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-willing-to-wait-but-curious/18736/4 "2000-05-07T01:08:01Z")
It probably means that your current email client is (or the settings of same are) not compatible with some signature files. The only reason I can think of at the moment why that might be is perhaps the sig file in question contains HTML and your email client is not HTML capable. * * * Manual HTML-free sig line #23 ---
**Author:** ![VeraGemini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e9bcb4/32.png) [@VeraGemini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VeraGemini)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-willing-to-wait-but-curious/18736/5 "2000-05-07T04:18:20Z")
I would guess it’s referring to a digital signature (like Verisign) rather than a text or ASCII sig. Either your browser is old, or the signature itself has a problem making it invalid. Vera ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-willing-to-wait-but-curious/18736/6 "2000-05-07T14:29:49Z")
No, no, no. It means that someone, I think it’s Sofa King if IIRC, has typed those actual words into the signature box in his profile. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-willing-to-wait-but-curious/18736/7 "2000-05-11T04:50:22Z")
You just never know what sort of clever stuff dopers will use as a sig to to be funny (or to fool the not so computer literate, which, is the definition of funny to a doper). Peace. * * * Error 405 – Signature contains subliminal message that withers your eyes. * * * Error 174[sub]A[/sub] – Signature will not appear on your browser because it doesn’t like you. * * * Error [sup]#[/sup]42 – Message from your computer system: You smell funny. * * * Error 86 – To display this sig, press CNTRL-ALT-DEL on your keyboard. * * * Error 983443 – If you can see more than one sig in this message, meltdown is imminent. Immediately flee from your computer and contact the NSA.