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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: <1989Oct25.052653.20236@rpi.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 89 05:26:53 GMT
References: <949@wubios.wustl.edu> <10552@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In <10552@cbnews.ATT.COM> r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr) writes:
Dick> I, also, use different signatures (one for internal company
Dick> newsgroups, and another for world-wide newsgroups).  Pnews, etc.
Dick> looks for a file named ".signature" in your login directory.  If
Dick> there is no such file, no signature is appended.  I keep my two
Dick> signatures in files named ".sig.int" and ".sig.ext" and edit the
Dick> appropriate one into my article manually.

Some newsreaders, like GNUS and Gnews, already have some mechanisms
built in for changing .signatures.  GNUS' is based on the distribution
of the article; I have a .signature-rpi for local postings while
.signature goes on everything else.  I understand that Gnews has a
highly customizable way of handling signatues, down to the group to
which an article is being posted.  I'll be hacking GNUS sometime over
the coming weekend to do similar things.

Dave
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