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From: pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Local and remote signatures - a solution(?)
Keywords: signatures
Message-ID: <21069@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 89 16:07:52 GMT
References: <398@sirius.ua.oz> <581@tiamat.fsc.com> <1430@itivax.iti.org>
Reply-To: pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1430@itivax.iti.org> scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
>In article <581@tiamat.fsc.com> jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) writes:
>:> 
>:> Elm would then pattern match on these templates
>:
>:This would be a workable solution for "configuration file literate" users,
>:but most of my users still don't understand that .elm/elmrc and .newsrc
>:exist and/or what they are used for, much less a .elm/local-users file.
>
>True, but you as site admin can make it unnecesary for them.  Suppose
>we have the following rules for pattern matching: first look in the users
>.elm/local-users file.  If a definitive match is not found, look in
>/usr/local/lib/elm (or wherever you install the elm helpfiles and such)
>for a local-users file.  Reasonable?
 
This seems by far the most logical approach. I feel that most users
(ie. >99%) have little need for more than two signatures and this approach
seems to address the problem in a very straight-forward manner. 

What I like best about this approach is that my less sophisticated users
are unaffected by it and my more sophisticated ones get something else
to muck about with. :-)

I'd like to see us reach some consensus on this issue soon as I feel we
really have other problems and issues that need addressing as well and
all this talk about signatures is drowning them in the noise.
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Paul M. Moriarty        pmm@mips.com          {ames,decwrl}!mips!pmm 
MIPS Computers Systems        
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