platzer@utcsrgv.UUCP (Andrew Platzer) (07/04/84)
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Why is it that people's signatures are so often like this:
Tom West
{allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!platzer
instead of
Tom West
{allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!platzer
By putting a 7 or 8 line signature on the right side of the screen, us poor
suckers who read news at 300 baud have to sit for 10-15 seconds instead of
3-4 seconds for the end of letter signature. It should be no trouble for
people to left justify their signatures, and I am fairly sure that after the
200th right hand side signature at 300 baud, I'm not the only one to get a
little annoyed.
Just a little suggestion to make life easier for others.
as you might of guessed
Tom Westcem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) (07/18/84)
Does anyone know of a way to simply mail something to Foobar@Bletch and
have the computer figure out a way to route it ? Certainly something
could digestify the multiKiloByte maps we keep getting into a machine
readable path list or some such. Why not generate a file of the form
Site: path!to!the!site!from!here
Site2: Another!path!for!another!site
etc
Then make mail (or Mail or mAil or maIl ...) smart enough to take it
from there. Then my signature would be only 2 lines. (I feel I have
to keep in a disclaimer) ? Since unix is supposed to be a hackers
dream why not start hackin' While we are at it, how about a program
for reading the mbox file in my directory and give me headers and
let peruse any message in any order, lets write MM for this poor excuse
for a user interface.
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-- Chuck - - - D I S C L A I M E R - - -
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ARPAnet : "hplabs!intelca!cem"@Berkeleyspaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) (07/24/84)
>Does anyone know of a way to simply mail something to Foobar@Bletch and >have the computer figure out a way to route it ? Certainly something >could digestify the multiKiloByte maps we keep getting into a machine >readable path list or some such. Why not generate a file of the form >Site: path!to!the!site!from!here >Site2: Another!path!for!another!site >etc > >Then make mail (or Mail or mAil or maIl ...) smart enough to take it >from there. Then my signature would be only 2 lines. (I feel I have >to keep in a disclaimer) ? Since unix is supposed to be a hackers >dream why not start hackin' While we are at it, how about a program >for reading the mbox file in my directory and give me headers and >let peruse any message in any order, lets write MM for this poor excuse >for a user interface. Gee, Chuck, you mean you don't have software at your system that does either of those? Everybody else in the civilized world seems to. Maybe you're just not looking in the right places.... Have your system admin contact me and I can send him more routing software than he'll ever want to see! So there. And your little dog too. -- Off the Wall of Gene Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Phone: (404) 894-6169, (404) 894-6170 [messages] CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!spaf ...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!spaf