Subject: Re: hmmm

From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:26:02 -0800

Robin, as I understood his question (please excuse the assumption, I know it
can be dangerous) It appeared as though he wanted to display a URL in each
email message, ergo a decent use of a dotsig.
Headers are rarely understood by the average user, but if there was a
different purpose, then I stand corrected and stand down on this issue.
-Colin
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin S. Socha <[email-masked]>
To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: hmmm

>On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Colin J. Raven wrote:
>
>> Yup, there's a really easy solution readily available to you called a
>> signature file (otherwise known as a dotsig or .signature) and it's a bit
>> more elegant than twenty header lines.
>
>No, Colin, it isn't. I'm too tired to check the son-of-rfc-1632 or
>something, stuff like urls goes in the header.
>
>> Two methods of accomplishing what (I think) you are looking for: 1. quit
>> pine, and at the command prompt do a: pookie.guts.com$touch .signature
>
>pookie.guts.com? Cute. But why on earth would you touch a sigfile and...
>
>> pookie.guts.com$chmod 755 .signature
>
>make it executable??? and then
>
>> pookie.guts.com$pico .signature
>
>use this abomination called pico to edit that file, instead of simply using
>the sigfile option available on the M(ain) screen?
>
>> ---------------------------------------------------<separator line
>
>Colin? Back in the days when XEmacs roamed my harddrive, I had this:
>
>;;* This one takes care of fucked-up signatures
>(setq gnus-signature-separator
>      '("-- *$" ; The standard
> "^-- *$"        ; A common mangling
>        "^-------*$"    ; Many people just use a looong
>                        ; line of dashes.  Shame!
>        "^ *--------*$" ; Double-shame!
>        "^________*$"   ; Underscores are also popular
>        "^========*$")) ; Pervert!
>
>That's "-- " and nothing else? dash dash blank. Some programs use this
>separator to do fancy stuff with signatures. Pine doesn't, btw. Some
>programs put sigdashes in automagically. Pine doesn't. Why me? Why my
>XEmacs? Why not pine? I want my Gnus back... *sniff*
>
>> Mike Cross
>> http://www.phatboys.com/
>> mailto: [email-masked]
>> "If you can't convince them, confuse them." -Harry S Truman
>
>Unless your hdd is broken, you don't need the email in there - it's in your
>from: line. The URL could use standard format, too:
<URL:http://foo.bar.com>
>to make it clickable. Pine doesn't do that, btw. *sigh*
>
>[snipped really interesting things I didn't read]
>> Follow this method, and you've learned several things....
>
>Colin? You have just taught the young man how to do about everything
>feasible wrong. But that's ok, because this is not gnu.emacs.gnus, but the
>pine discussion forum, and the only reason we're here is because we are
nice
>chaps that enjoy a good laugh once in a while. Technical problems do not
>really belong here...
>
>> Hope this answers your question, and if so, we expect you to post to the
>> list using your new dotisg!!!!! Don't worry if it's goofy to begin with,
>> just about everyone has a goofy dotsig in the beginning. You'll change it
>> as time goes by, everyone does.
>
>Yeah... Some people have really cool stuff to change their signatures:
>
>;;* Use random signatures in message-mode
>;;  written by Matt Simmons <[email-masked]>
>(require 'random-sig)
>(setq random-signature-head (expand-file-name "~/.sigfiles/HEAD"))
>(setq random-signature-dir  (expand-file-name "~/.sigfiles"))
>(setq message-signature 'random-signature-fun)
>
>I wish things were as easy as that with pine.
>
>[email-masked]
>
>--
>.signature: I/O error
>*nrglflmpblymenshrrsn*
>
>
>

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 15:39:54 +0100 (CET)

> email message, ergo a decent use of a dotsig.

Sure, but your format was not the best.

> different purpose, then I stand corrected and stand down on this issue.

No, but... }:-> Make it look like this:

-- 
Robin S. Socha 
SC CRIS
<URL:http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~robin>
I/O error is what an hdd says when it dies...

I guess that's the accepted format. And make sure it's "-- ", not "--".
Anyway, this is only hypothetical here, because UPS failed to deliver in
time and I'll be stuck with this system till Monday.

Robin