Does anyone specify their pronouns in email?

Just had an email from a person with first name Alison. Underneath it said pronouns she/her. No shit - you're a woman. I deduced that from your first name but I don't actually care what gender or whatever you claim to be we're just doing business. Don't know whether the pronoun bit is the organisation policy or something she chooses to add.

Had to answer professionally but was so tempted to say if you want to bring pronouns in to the equation wouldn't it be way cooler to be them/they

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onewithshoes · 22-25, F

Yes it's an indication of the stupidity of our times, but in fairness, one who was unfamiliar with the name in question might assume it were another silly instance of a family name (which the '-son' ending would normally imply) being used as a given name wherewith a child of either gender might have been saddled.
Wondering now whether things would be easier or harder or just different in a language whose first and second person pronouns were also gendered?