Re: How do I get no signature in particular groups?

[Emerick Rogul <emerick@cs.bu.edu>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

: Emerick Rogul <emerick@cs.bu.edu> writes:
:: In some newsgroups I'm subscribed to, I don't want any signature at
:: all to be appended to my messages.  I tried adding (message-signature
:: nil) to my group parameters, but nothing happened.  I also tried
:: adding (signature nil) and (signature "") to that group's
:: posting-style.  Setting it to nil did nothing; setting it to "" was
:: closer, but I was still getting the signature separator at the end of
:: my message.

: I think I've located and fixed this bug.  Could you check after
: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99 has been released to see whether things start
: working?

I've now tested this with the latest pGnus 0.99 in CVS (as of
11/23/1999) and it still doesn't seem quite right (either that, or I'm
doing something completely wrong :).

I have the following in my .gnus file:

(setq gnus-posting-styles
  '((".*"
    (signature-file "~/.my-sig"))))

This will use my standard signature in all groups, and that works
fine.  In one particular group where I don't want to use a signature,
I've added the following to the group parameters:

(posting-style
 (signature nil))

This still appended my signature to new messages.  I then tried the
following:

(posting-style
 (signature-file nil))

but this caused an error (pgnus is expecting a string, I suppose).
Finally, I tried the following which did what I wanted (no signature
for that particular group) but seemed unintuitive:

(posting-style
 (signature t))

If I'm doing something wrong, please let me know, but I think I've
correctly followed all of the instructions in the manual.

-Emerick
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