For us, the 'thanks email' is mostly a way of closing off an email thread for the time being. It almost serves as a punctuation mark. If a client sends us a bunch of edits, we'll respond with a "got it, thanks!" to let them know that we have everything and they needn't worry about us having received their edits. Conversely, our clients will send us a thanks to let us know that they're happy with our latest round of edits and we can move on until we hear from them later.
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Pretty much this. Whenever I send out an email to a client and say "Thank you. I got it." it's usually to let them know that I got all the changes or images they requested on a design and it serves as a "OK, I'm on it. Don't write me anymore until I'm done with the current changes." type of warning.
And, for the record, this is my signature that goes out with every email:
I also used to have a short quote at the bottom (Quod sumus, hoc eritis) but I got rid of it because A) I figured some of my clients are probably retarded enough to start an entire conversation asking me what it means and distracting me from my work entirely or B) what Sass said about professionalism.
How ya doing, buddy?