Subject: Re: help

From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 16:14:38 +0100

On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, BAT88 wrote:

> can someone know what is ' signature ' , how it put into our mail..

Create a filed called ".signature" (not including the quotation marks) in
your home directory on the machine you are reading your mail, and it will
be automatically included in all the messages you write with Pine.

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Peter - http://nafmo.home.ml.org/

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From: BAT88 <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 13:59:06 +0000

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 09:25:49 -0500

> can someone know what is ' signature ' , how it put into our mail..

    A signature is a small file which is automatically included in your
mail (or newsgroup postings) to sign your message.  Some people think
they should draw cutesy-pie signature files, but other people think
this is bad taste.  With Pine (not necessarily so with other mailers),
the signature file is included in the message you are composing in such
a way that you can edit it like any other part of your message if you
want.  A signature file is merely a plain text file composed with a text
editor (like Pico).

    On Un*x systems, the signature file is customarily named .signature
(note carefully the leading period) and located in your home directory
by default.  (I am not accustomed to other systems.)  Go into your
personal configuration and read the online help for the entries
personal-signature (I think it is called) and signature-at-bottom to
see whether you want or need to make use of these options.

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