Subject: signature

From: John Tyson Littlejohn <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 03:54:36 -0500 (CDT)

Hi

This may be a simple question, but how do I get my signature to come at
the bottom of the page instead of the top, which will save me the trouble
of cutting and pasting.

Thanks,
John

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From: Rudolf Kompf <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 12:03:55 +0200 (MET DST)

On Wed, 21 May 1997, John Tyson Littlejohn wrote:

-> Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 03:54:36 -0500 (CDT)
-> From: John Tyson Littlejohn
     <[email-masked]>
-> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
-> Subject: signature
-> 
-> 
-> Hi
-> 
-> This may be a simple question, but how do I get my signature to come at
-> the bottom of the page instead of the top, which will save me the trouble
-> of cutting and pasting.
-> 
-> Thanks,
-> John
-> 
Set via config-menu 'signature-at-bottom'
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 11:29:41 +0100 (BST)

A question for you in return... Have you tried looking through Pine's
Setup Configuration screen for anything that seems relevent to your query?
There's lots of options there to allow you to configure Pine in many ways,
and one of them does just what you want.  (I leave you to discover which
... I'm told it's called "Information Research"!)

Cheers,

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 11:51:20 +0200 (CEST)

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Yo!

  >This may be a simple question, 

And a Frequently Asked Question, too :-)  
  
  >but how do I get my signature to come at the bottom of the page instead
  >of the top, which will save me the trouble of cutting and pasting.

Either hack your .pinerc and add a feature
        signature-at-bottom
or do the same in M(ain), S(etup), C(onfigure).

Enjoy.

Robin

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From: PeopleInternetWork <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 01:48:42 -0700

I would like to fix this *&%* pine.  Any help would be appreciated.  The
last posts looked like this;

    230 May 21 Len Howard            Re: Andrew
    231 May 21 Robin S Socha         Re: Andrew
    232 May 21 David A Galbraith CIR How does your mail system work?
    233 May 21 Prof H.J. Leutheusser MIME
    234 May 21 Robin S Socha         Re: MIME
    235 May 22 Dana Booth <"Dana Boo Re: signature 

I would like my handle to appear in the slot where names appear.  I
believe you will see the name of the group instead, "To:....."

Hep me!! he me!!

Thank you

Yes I rtfm 'ed

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 11:14:25 +0100 (BST)

Hmmm.... your message seems a little incoherent: it's not really obvious
what it is you are asking at all.

However I'll make a wild guess and assume it's the same old question that
is asked (and answered) time and again about the phrase "To: recipient
name" appearing in the index screen instead of your own name for messages
you send out.

(If I'm wrong in this assumption please forgive me and either hope someone
else fathoms the query better then I, or else perhaps you could repost it
a little more clearly.)

Firstly... Pine assumes that you know your own name.

This means that providing it _implies_ to you by some other means that a
message originated from you it can then use space saved to display more
usefyl information.

In particular to the presence of the "To:" prefix is _implying_ that this
message originated from you.  The remaining space is then used to display
the name of the first recipient the message was e-mailed to or, in the
case of a message posted only to one or more newsgroups and not e-mailed,
the name of the first newsgroup.

This behaviour _is_ actually explained (although a little more concisely)
in Pine's built-in help: in the Index screen type a "?" to see its help
screen and read down a little way.  There you will find:

	SENDER: The name or email address of the sender.  If you are the
	sender, then the first recipient's name is shown here.  In
	Newsgroups, if you are the sender and there are no email
	recipients, the newsgroup name will be listed. 

This is actually a *very* useful feature that the people who complain
don't (yet) appreciate.  For example if you save incoming and outgoing
messages into a folder it helps you identify messages you sent to a
particular person very easily.  If you are keeping copies of all the
messages you send (by have a "default-fcc" set up) try looking in that
folder to see how useful it is!

If you *really* can't live with this feature (or like the constant
reassurance of seeing your own name:-) you _can_ change it.  Take a look
in Pine's Setup Configuration screen for the variable called
"index-format" and read its built-in help entry (put the cursor on it and
type "?").

This explains how to tailor the format that the Index screen uses to
display its lists.  It also tells you the default value normally used.
If you make a note of this you can then explicitly set the index-format to
the same string, except with FROMORTO changed to FROM.

The result will be that the Index screen will _always_ display the "From:" 
field value for the messages listed, and you will lose the ability to
easily check folders containing copies of outgoing messages for a message
to a particular person (the index will merely list your own name against
each of them).

Cheers,

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From: Guy Meacham <[email-masked]>
Date: 25 May 1997 13:43:31 GMT

On Sun, 25 May 1997 09:15:50 GMT Dr Doom <[email-masked]> wrote:
: John Tyson Littlejohn wrote:
: > 
: > Hi
: > 
: > This may be a simple question, but how do I get my signature to come at
: > the bottom of the page instead of the top, which will save me the trouble
: > of cutting and pasting.
: > 
: > Thanks,
: > John

There is an option for this in Pne set up, simply go to set up from the
main screen go through the options until you find sig at bottom then check
it.
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