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From: edwin@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: New Elm behavior
Summary: It'll look different to each individual user
Message-ID: <1354@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 30 May 89 13:07:11 GMT
References: <1346@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <614@kl-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Univ of Utrecht, Dept of CS
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  In article <614@kl-cs.UUCP>, jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
  > 
  > What about us in the UK?  Our addresses START with the domain.
Oops, I forgot you guys drive on the other side (no, no, I don't say it's
the *wrong* side!) of the road :-)
I tried to say "....@whatever.sub.top" makes the decision local/remote
just a bit more floating than "....@thishost.sub.top"

  > Perhaps and easy solution would be to select the local signature on
  > these conditions (these will need modifying for the UUCP world).
  > 1.	The address does not have a '.' in it.
  > 2.	The address matches a list of domains.
  > 
  > The list will be like this:
  > .kl.ac.uk
  > .keele.ac.uk
Hmm, that would be yet another file to maintain. Besides, it differs for each
individual user: some guy on a remote machine or another domain might know me
but not my neighbour.
This could be implemented just like the header weedout list in the users
elmrc, but I don't think we want to bother users with this kind of mailing
details.

  > How about a simple question if both local and remote signatures are
  > defined and there is an address (rather than just a username):
  > Local or Remote signature [R] ? @
Sure, but we always try to have the software taken care of as many details
as possible, don't we ?? Anyway, I would agree with a solution like this -
it's more user-friendly than having to read the right signature file into
your editor buffer by hand (as suggested in the discussion earlier) ....

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