[tolien]

A chunk of the federal employee base will have something like "LTC" or "Dr." in front of their name, which again confers no indication of gender or preferred pronoun.

[keybored]

Mr. Bob French Fries, M.D., Ph.D

People should do what they want with pronouns in email signatures. But I don’t understand why you can’t string these together.

[jdgoesmarching]

I don’t understand why you’re going through all these weird lengths to solve a problem that pronouns more optimally solve and cover more use cases (e.g. nonbinary people).

[llamaimperative]

Sounding pretentious (for one's own tastes) is a perfectly defensible reason not to do this. I don't know anyone who enjoys Mr/Ms/Mrs.

[keybored]

Right, I misread this part. I thought the pretentious part was using your titles in your name. Not the Mr/Mrs thing. Oh well.

[keybored]

I see no difference in pretentiousness between the two styles.

[llamaimperative]

Sure, but it's not your name.

[tolien]

As an example (the DoD has almost 2 million personnel on active duty/reserve/guard), "Capt. J Bond USN".

[Balgair]

One I've heard a lot from boomers is:

"Mr. Doe is my father. Call me John"

And yes, even the 70 year olds still do this around me, and yes, I find it really weird too.