toto@tank.uchicago.edu (Sandra Jessica Smyth) (12/29/89)
We are running rn here and I am posting this with postnews. Is there anything I can do to automatically save copies of my own postings? I.e., when I "send" this using postnews or when I followup to a posting using rn, is there any way that a copy of it can be automatically appended to a file something like "Sandra's_Silly_Thoughts?" -- Sandra Jessica Smyth Believer in lost causes toto@tank.uchicago.edu
charleen@zodiac.ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna) (12/29/89)
In article <6902@tank.uchicago.edu> toto@tank.uchicago.edu (Sandra Jessica Smyth) writes: > >We are running rn here and I am posting this with postnews. Is there >anything I can do to automatically save copies of my own postings? >I.e., when I "send" this using postnews or when I followup to a >posting using rn, is there any way that a copy of it can be >automatically appended to a file something like >"Sandra's_Silly_Thoughts?" Sure. Put this in your .login or .cshrc: setenv AUTHORCOPY /users/toto/Sandras_Silly_Thoughts (BTW, you don't want a filename with a single quote in it [Sandra's]; if you try to create such a file, you'll get an error message.) Some people prefer to add a Cc: or Bcc: line to the header, and have a copy of their article mailed to them rather than appended to one long file. That way they can file it according to subject or such. Charleen -- I'm getting ready to go off to college and my dad says, "I'm going to miss you." I said, "Sure, now that I broke the sight off your rifle..." -- Emo Philips
johnb@lakesys.lakesys.com (John C. Burant) (12/29/89)
In article <6902@tank.uchicago.edu> toto@tank.uchicago.edu (Sandra Jessica Smyth) writes: >We are running rn here and I am posting this with postnews. Is there >anything I can do to automatically save copies of my own postings? [deleted] Yes. >automatically appended to a file something like It already has been automatically appended to $HOME/.article So to view it once you've sent it, do a: cat .article (assuming your in your $HOME directory) However, next time you post news, this will be replaced, so if you really want to keep it, you'd better make a copy. -John -- John C. Burant | johnb@lakesys.lakesys.com Glendale, Wisc | johnb@lakesys.UUCP (414) 228-7915 | uunet!marque!lakesys!johnb
woerz%leonardo@isaak.uucp (Dieter Woerz) (01/02/90)
In article <6902@tank.uchicago.edu> toto@tank.uchicago.edu (Sandra Jessica Smyth) asks whether she can save a copy of her posted article to a file. > ... I don't know about postnews. We are using Pnews here to post articles. Pnews checks, if the environment variable AUTHORCOPY is set. If so, it appends the message in mailbox format to the name file. >-- >Sandra Jessica Smyth Believer in lost causes >toto@tank.uchicago.edu Dieter Woerz ISA GmbH, Azenbergstr. 35 D-7000 Stuttgart-1 W-Germany UUCP: {pyramid!iaoobel,uunet!unido}!isaak!woerz BITNET/EARN: woerz@ds0iff5
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (01/02/90)
Assuming you regularly read the newsgroup, you can put a line in the rn KILL file to do this, something like: /To: me@mybox/h:s ../hold/I_posted -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon