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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: how can I get Pnews to ask for .signature?
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.052244.20087@rpi.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 89 05:22:44 GMT
References: <949@wubios.wustl.edu> <1589@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In <3798@solo7.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
Maarten> This signature should NOT be put into a file named
Maarten> $HOME/.signature, else *inews* would include it too (iff it's
Maarten> shorter than 5 lines and iff there's more body than signature
Maarten> text).

It might and it might not; this is where local test groups, like
rpi.test, come in handy.  Find out whether inews is indeed including
$HOME/.signature file at all -- there are are at least three "standard"
inews programmes in operation.  One is for B News, one is for C News,
and one is for NNTP sites.  (News admins will know the details of this
further.)  Policy is frequently different regarding .signatures and
how it is all set up at any given site is not something which can be
safely assumed.

Dave
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