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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I append a message to my articles?
Message-ID: <1989Oct4.000518.13919@rpi.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 89 00:05:18 GMT
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In <19939@mimsy.UUCP> balinsky@tove.umd.edu (andrew balinsky) writes:
andrew> I am a new user of news, and I would like to know from someone
andrew> out there how I append a quote, disclaimer, etc. to the end of
andrew> my news postings.  I am using rn and vi as my editor.

Someone suggested creating a .signature file and then answer yes to
rn's question regarding whether to append the file; if you do this be
warned that some other part of the posting process might already be
picking up your .signature.  It would be best to test out in a local
group (umd.test?) and see how many times your .signature appears.

As a possibly unnecessary plug for common net courtesy regarding
signature files, and not at all desiring to see the argument rehashed
here, it is suggested that you not have a long signature (four lines
is the suggested maximum, less is better).

andrew> Also, I would like to know how I can get back to articles that
andrew> I have already read.

A number of tricks have been posted here recently to accomplish this;
generally you would want to use ?.? to search backwards, and use
perhaps the r or m modifiers to include all unread articles, and then
the = command to display a summary line for each.  For example,
"$?.?m:=" might give you the behaviour you desire.  It goes to the end
of the group, searches backwards and marks every article temporarily,
and then lists their subjects, in reverse order.

andrew> Finally, is this newsgroup the right place for me to be
andrew> posting questions like this?

Yes.  We're thinking of renaming it news.rn.questions instead though,
to more accurately reflect 90% of the articles' subject matter.
(Yes, ":-)")

Dave
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