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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: .signature file
Message-ID: <454@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Jul-86 10:22:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: hadron.454
Posted: Wed Jul  2 10:22:17 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jul-86 06:04:14 EDT
References: <241@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Keywords: help...
Summary: Usually, must be explicitly included.

In article <241@killer.UUCP> tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko) writes:
>Can somebody help me out...I remember reading in the Usenet documentation
>that one can make a .signature file that would be used to append a standard
>signature to anything sent over Usenet.  Neat, but apparantly I'm omitting
>something or have the wrong name, and I can no longer find the info in the 
>Usenet documentation.  Can anybody shed some light to help out a poor
>bewildered soul?
>Tad Marko

For most mail "user agents" (interface, or user programs), you
have to explicitly include your "~/.signature".  These include
mail, Mail, mailx, mh, and msg, from what I can see.  In fact,
the only mail program that appears to pick up on ~/.signature
is the one included with the news package.

For this reason (manually picking up), I've linked ~/.signature
to ~/.sig.  I left the ~/.signature link, so it would in fact be
included in news, as:
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
			jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)