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From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Double signatures
Message-ID: <5256@well.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 07:24:52 GMT
References: <530@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, max@trinity.UUCP (Max Hauser) wrote:
}In article <261@mancol.UUCP> samperi@mancol.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
}>When a mail reply to an article is send via the rn 'r' command, it seems
}>that a 'yes' response to the question about including the contents of
}>.signature results in the contents of this file being included twice.
}
}To this point let me add only that a lot of people must never check
}their own postings after sending them out, because an awful lot of
}articles have appeared in recent months with their long and clever 
}signature lines included twice, whatever the cause. Looks very swift,
}kind of like someone driving for twenty miles with their turn signal
}flashing. Really emphasizes the impact of that clever signature.

Ay-yup.

I posted a complete and permanent solution to double signatures
last year.  Summary: since processing of .signature is inconsistant
and random, don't use .signature -- move the file to .mysignature
and include it yourself.  To do the inclusion automatically, simply
make your own copies of the Pnews and Rnmail scripts and edit them.

Side benefit: when you modify the scripts, you can get rid of all the
stupid "Are you sure?  Are you really really sure?" bullstuff.

Side benefit 2: this defeats the fascist and stupid 4-line signature
limit.
---
Jef

              Jef Poskanzer   jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa   ...well!pokey
          What you don't know can hurt you, only you won't know it.