Finally a gloat for me

Gunner Asch wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Open the file containing your sig in "edit" mode.

Insert as the first line of the file.

(Re)Save the file.

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RAM³
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"RAM³" wrote in news:Xns9D6BF206E104Bs31924netscapenet@74.209.131.10:

BTW - that line should only contain 3 characters...

Reply to
RAM³

Ok, and this does what to my sig?

Gunner

"First Law of Leftist Debate The more you present a leftist with factual evidence that is counter to his preconceived world view and the more difficult it becomes for him to refute it without losing face the chance of him calling you a racist, bigot, homophobe approaches infinity.

This is despite the thread you are in having not mentioned race or sexual preference in any way that is relevant to the subject." Grey Ghost

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Gunner Asch

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Most newsreaders do it by default, and you have to take special steps to keep it from doing so.

But if your version of Agent does not do it for you, just modify the files from which your .sig quotes are extracted to have each one start with a line with two hyphens (dashes) and a blank space starting at the left margin. Nothing else on that line, just the "-- " (without the quotes).

Enjoy, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols

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Reply to
Andrew VK3BFA

On 2 May 2010 05:39:44 GMT, the infamous "DoN. Nichols" scrawled the following:

I intentionally omit the space so I can see when my sig gets stale. If you know of any automatic sig changer for Agent, I'll install it so you don't have to put up with my persistent sigs. I haven't seen one.

-- Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. -- Raymond Lindquist

Reply to
Larry Jaques

The same thing as the "snip" that I just applied: it tells the other guys' newsreaders to NOT insert it when composing a reply.

This, then, shortens the reply and the reply to the reply and the reply to the reply to the reply...ad nauseum.

Example: _____________

Reply to
RAM³

Marks it as "not part of the message" so that followups don't include it.

Insert

If there had been an actual above, all the text 'south' of it would not have been included.

This does cause some problem with top posters, who end their post with that double dash. When you reply, all one sees is what they posted, not what they were responding to.

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

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pyotr filipivich

Ok, this one should have the mechanism.

Gunner

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"First Law of Leftist Debate The more you present a leftist with factual evidence that is counter to his preconceived world view and the more difficult it becomes for him to refute it without losing face the chance of him calling you a racist, bigot, homophobe approaches infinity.

This is despite the thread you are in having not mentioned race or sexual preference in any way that is relevant to the subject." Grey Ghost

Reply to
Gunner Asch

No, you have a leading space. It should be like this:

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Michael A. Terrell

Gunner Asch on Sun, 02 May 2010 19:52:34 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Close - needs that space after the final hyphen (I know because, I get the occasional comment because one of mine is Proper.)

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

Reply to
pyotr filipivich

Ok. removed the leading space

Gunner

Reply to
Gunner Asch

Have you seen this one Larry?

I'm not familiar with Agent. Does it read a text file to get the sig? If so this might work.

Pete

Reply to
Pete Snell

Good. Now add a space after the two dashes.

Reply to
Michael A. Terrell

I can live with sigs. What is annoying is "someone scrawled, what's that lassie, or let it be announced that someone spewed" and other crap at the beginning of reposts.

Steve

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A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

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Steve B

Ok, just did that.

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Gunner Asch

Gunner Asch wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

== "By George, I think he's got it!" - Professor 'Enry 'Iggins

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RAM³

Now, "Steve B". Hopefully Gunner has set a good example. Bob

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Bob Engelhardt

Gunner Asch on Sun, 02 May 2010 23:20:52 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Yep. that worked. (ain' this fun?)

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

Reply to
pyotr filipivich

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You also removed the trailing space which *must* be there. It

*must* be

where EOL is , on Windows boxen, and just for unix systems (including linux and Mac OS-X). The old MacOS (9 and earlier) used only .

Enjoy, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols

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