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From: geoff@utcs.UUCP (Geoff Collyer)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: It's time for news to get user-UNfriendly... (signature nuking)
Message-ID: <535@utcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 20:19:30 EST
Article-I.D.: utcs.535
Posted: Mon Mar 18 20:19:30 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Mar-85 21:24:55 EST
References: <465@grendel.UUCP> <309@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <2478@nsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: geoff@utcs.UUCP (Geoff Collyer)
Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX
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Keywords: signatures
Summary: source code for 2.10.1 B news to nuke signatures

In article <2478@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>If signatures bother you, I'd suggest
>that you hack rn, or vnews, or readnews, or whatever you read news with to
>excise them. Standard news puts a '--' on the line before the signature for
>just this very purpose, and I heartily suggest that people who add
>signatures manually do the same. If you DO do this, please post it-- I'm
>sure there are others who would appreciate doing without signatures as
>well.

I haven't modified rn yet, but here's the two-line mod to readnews
(2.10.1, sorry) to excise signatures.  In rfuncs2.c, you modify the
function tprint and add the two lines with comments on them.
As coded, signatures are only suppressed under -h; you may want
to change this policy.

[Incidentally, signatures are preceded by "-- \n" and not "--\n".]
[A small flame, now that news supplies one's name and return address
and pathalias can provide a decent return path, what justificiation
is there for signatures aside from humour?]

tprint(ifp, ofp, checkfrom)
register FILE *ifp, *ofp;
int checkfrom;
{
	register int	c;

	while ((fgets(bfr, sizeof bfr, ifp)) != NULL && !sigtrap) {
		if (hflag && strcmp(bfr, "-- \n") == 0)	/* signature start */
			break;				/* ignore rest */
		if (checkfrom && strncmp(bfr, "From ", 5) == 0)
			putc('>', ofp);
		fputs(bfr, ofp);
	}
	if (sigtrap)
		qfflush(ofp);
	fflush(ofp);
	fprintf(ofp, (sigtrap ? "\n\n" : "\n"));
	sigtrap = FALSE;
}