From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14439 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: author of post and signature problems Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:32:19 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <8762uet165.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87ipydtzw1.fsf@a64.davidb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293568827 29341 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2010 20:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:40:27 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 28 21:40:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXgLG-0000V3-Sb for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:40:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52652 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PXgLG-000865-9y for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:40:22 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1293568339 21833 85.183.18.158 (28 Dec 2010 20:32:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:32:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:85168 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14439 Archived-At: David Brown writes: > prad writes: > >> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > >> well i've used the same sig for years and i have no trouble posting with >> it on the other news groups (in fact, the emacs.help group) with >> claws-mail. >> >> so i'm inclined to think this is resolvable within gnus. >> >> ... with you on your journey >> Towards Freedom >> http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) >> Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's > > If this is your signature, the probably is probably that gnus is > considering your entire post to be the signature. I think Prad removed the "-- " or else he couldnt post with the sig. > > Convention has the signature start with a line containing two hyphens, a > space, and a newline. Gnus searches for this when scanning for the > signature. > > Your signature has no separator, so it has no way of finding it. It > also means that the signature won't be visually distinguished by clients > that have that capability. > > David