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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Signature functionality change
Message-ID: <9388@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 26 May 89 13:52:40 GMT
References: <204@grc.UUCP>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <204@grc.UUCP> don@grc.UUCP (Donald D. Woelz) writes:

About .signature file change.

>I consider this to be a major return to the dark ages.  I sometimes
>edit my signature for various reasons.  I can no longer do that
>on a mesage by message basis.

Sure you can.  Just go into the editor and read in your signature 
manually if you want to change it.  The change was necessary for three 
reasons 1) a local vs remote signature would often cause the side 
effect of making elm use a different editor.  It's hard to explain to 
a user why elm acts very differently just because mail is sent offsite 
and 2) you *can't* determine what signature to use until the message 
is complete and 3) other programs (rn, etc) work that way.  

You were depending on a side effect of a bug in elm.

  Is there some new configuration
>parameter or elmrc parameter that will get this to behave in the
>same way that it has in the past? 

Perhaps you could figure out a solution to #2 above and then add one.  

-- 
  Jon Zeeff			zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us
  Ann Arbor, MI			sharkey!b-tech!zeeff