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From: SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Signature files for local/nonlocal postings
Message-ID: <5500@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 14 Jul 89 20:55:36 GMT
References: <2557@ccavax.camb.com>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <2557@ccavax.camb.com>, Bob Tinkelman <tinkelman@CCAVAX.CAMB.COM>
 writes:
> I have a wish-list item, albeit a very minor one.  I've put together a mail
> signature file (see below) which, although I'll probably cut it back to fewer
> lines, seems appropriate for news I post "to the net".  However, when I post
> an item to one of a number of our "local" newsgroups, I always delete it as
> it seems silly.  I guess what I'm wishing for is a way to tell NEWS "include
> my signature file on nonlocal postings only."

How about adding a /SIGNATURE qualifer to the appropiate commands?  Bob could
use /NOSIG when posting to local groups.  It might also be nice to be able to
say POST/SIGNATURE=file to override the logical name.  This should be fairly
easy to implement.
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