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From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Local and remote signatures - a solution(?)
Keywords: signatures
Message-ID: <588@tiamat.fsc.com>
Date: 5 Jun 89 02:44:17 GMT
References: <398@sirius.ua.oz> <581@tiamat.fsc.com> <621@ispi.UUCP>
Organization: Filtration Sciences - Chattanooga,TN
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In article <621@ispi.UUCP>, jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
> 
> Of all the suggestions that have come up, this is one of the better
> ones.

I needed an ego boost.  Thanks :-)

> However, it doesn't take into account the problem of a mailing
> list.  If you have a mailing list of both local and remote addresses
> then either some of them will receive the wrong signature, or the user
> will be prompted for each address on the mailing list.  If you make the

I don't really see this as being a major issue.  In general, I'd say most
people don't know everyone that is on a mailing list (except for maybe
the administrator), and wouldn't know how to separate things.

If you're refering to a distribution list (i.e. more than one recipient
specified in the To: or Cc: headers), then I also don't think it's that
big of a deal.  Use the one which works out best.  So what if some remote
users occasionally get a local signature, or vice versa.  Besides, if there
was to be a different signature for different addresses in a distribution list,
you would in essence, have different messages, and would (possibly) be
defeating the purpose of using multiple recipients in the first place.

> then this method should satisfy most people.  For those diehards who
> like the older method of including the signature in the edited file, it
> might be conceivable to add a configuration question that asks for the
> old behaviour or the new.  It could concievably might be able to make
> this an elmrc option.

This was the only thing I left out of my proposal.  If it's not too
difficult it would be nice to see something like

SIGNATUREMENU = ON (or OFF)

to toggle the use of the after editting signature append (MENU = ON) or to
put the signature in the temp file before editting (MENU = OFF).
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James B. O'Connor			jim@tiamat.fsc.com
Filtration Sciences Corporation		615/821-4022 x. 651

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