------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Handling Signatures ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Create a .signature file with 4 or less lines (inews truncates this) In addition to the general signature instructions above NN users should edit their $HOME/.nn/init file so that it contains the following: set query-signature off set append-signature-mail on set append-signature-post off Note that the reason that you need to "set append-signature-post off" is that the news transport (such as inews) automatically appends a signature if it exists. If you "set append-signature-post on" then both nn and inews append your sig so you get two! OR... Do as I do. Set a macro in the editor you use (vi in my case) (or a keyboard macro under Xwindows), and just press the appropriate key to insert the signature at the end. As My signature is randomly generated, this allows me to preview the signature I am using on news, before sending it around the world. EG: I don't want to offend PC users around the world though I don't mind locally. OR... Create a 'fake' inews program to generate a random signature and pass the result to the real inews program with the arguments given. You then just notify nn in .nn/init to use your fake-inews instead of the real one. I actually do that for mail using a 'fake' sendmail program. See ~anthony/scripts/outmail for that as an example. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programmed signatures. The big advantage of a programmed method... * script to add to outgoing mail or news * use of a programmed keyboard macro is that you can also randomly change the signature every time. For example have a personal (or downloaded) file of quotes to use in the signature. Or have the program determine where the mail or news is destined and change the signature to be more work, hobby, or personal in style. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------