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- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!mcochran
- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: HELP ME!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.203118.12877@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan24.184912.10527@ac.dal.ca> <1993Jan25.041330.10120@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan25.131726.10434@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 20:31:18 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.131726.10434@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> pclark@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Peter Clark) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.041330.10120@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan24.184912.10527@ac.dal.ca> 08flex@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >
- >>You can't do it fro myour account. Really. It's just not even remotely
- >>possible, unles yo uwant to write the software yourself. From scratch.
- >>You'll probably have to write an entire new newsreader program. But it
- >>won't run on your machine anyway, so don't bother.
- >>*whew*
- >>Think maybe he'll buy it, and just sign his name?
- >
- >Aw, come on - someone had to tell you how to do it sometime, even if you
- >were better at Unix than some and found it in the man pages. You
- >weren't born with the internal knowledge to be able to instantaniously
- >know how to automatically add a sig to your account.
- >
- Um, I guess I must have been, 'cause nobody told me, and I still
- haven't read the man pages on my mailer or newsreader. I saw
- references to .signature files, and it seemed rather obvious to me.
-
- >Father Saryon - Protector of the Newbies. :)
- >
- Now now, don't coddle 'em. They've got to learn to bask in the flamage
- if they're to survive on internet. ;)
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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