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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Suggested New Feature For All Newsreaders
Message-ID: <58199@looking.on.ca>
Date: 7 Dec 89 19:03:18 GMT
References: <4585@itivax.iti.org>
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: information,original

You don't have to change the newsreader, just the paging program.  In
most newsreaders you can set the pager, although most pagers aren't as
good as that of rn.

Just make a pager that deletes sigs.  (Or filter the article through
sed -e '/--/,$d' | more or something)  I think there's a PAGER environment
variable.

If you simply want to ignore articles from people with long sigs, assuming
them to be idiots, the line:

	reject if line_count( signature ) > 5;

in Newsclip will do it.  (Newsclip will be posted to comp.sources.misc
shortly)

Or get fancy and do
	reject if line_count( text ) / (1+line_count( signature )) < 3;
which rejects articles which are more than 33% signature.



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Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473