Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: Re: .signature Message-ID: Date: 18 Aug 89 04:04:28 GMT References: Distribution: gnu Organization: OSU Lines: 19 raulmill@usc.edu writes: I have been having a similar problem with gnus. I think gnus and inews (which I understand gnus uses to post to the net) are both appending my .signature file. Anyone want to tackle this one? This is true. On a system using a local news spool, with an ordinary 2.11.x inews, inews itself will add your .signature to all articles. Unfortunately, GNUS also wants to add .signature for you, on the assumption (a bogus one, for the local spool case) that it is speaking NNTP to a remote system's inews which will have no access to one's ~/.signature. When I first tried out GNUS 3.10 many months ago, I questioned this behavior but the author disagreed that it was wrong. I have resorted to a fairly disgusting hack on 3.1[012], each time a new one has come out, so that GNUS does not, by default, do this. Our environment uses an apparent local news spool everywhere, even though we use NNTP, by use of NFS-mounted news spool and an NNTP inews that does .signature inclusion, just like the ordinary inews. --Karl