Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!elsie!ado From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) Newsgroups: net.news,net.misc Subject: Re: USENET frowning upon graphics in signatures Message-ID: <5250@elsie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 20:08:16 EDT Article-I.D.: elsie.5250 Posted: Thu Oct 24 20:08:16 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:23:39 EDT References: <491@scirtp.UUCP> <454@bdmrrr.UUCP> <722@mmintl.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.news:4145 net.misc:8758 Summary: possible software solution Idea time. 2.10.3 news precedes the contents of ".signature" files with a line with two dashes and a space. Yet another option for readnews/vnews could be introduced; use of the option would inhibit display of lines that followed a "-- " line (where the presence of the line would be your clue that a signature followed; there'd presumably have to be a new readnews/vnews command that you could so you could read the signature if you wanted to). If looking for "-- " lines is distasteful, another possibility would be to add a "Signature-Lines" line to the header. Now granted this solution would do nothing about the extra money, CPU time, and disk space spent on overblown signatures. Would it, however, solve one of the problems of those who read news on slow terminals? If so, I'll get on the case. -- UUCP: ..decvax!seismo!elsie!ado ARPA: elsie!ado@seismo.ARPA DEC, VAX and Elsie are Digital Equipment and Borden trademarks