Re: hmmm 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  To: Pine Discussion Forum  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$pico .signature > >use this abomination called pico to edit that file, instead of simply using >the sigfile option available on the M(ain) screen? > >> --------------------------------------------------- >Colin? Back in the days when XEmacs roamed my harddrive, I had this: > >;;* This one takes care of fucked-up signatures >(setq gnus-signature-separator >      '("-- *$" ; 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: webmassa@phatboys.com >> "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: >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  >(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. > >robin@franck.pc.uni-koeln.de > >-- >.signature: I/O error >*nrglflmpblymenshrrsn* > > >