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Re: ``Quips'' in signatures
From: |
Joe Fineman |
Subject: |
Re: ``Quips'' in signatures |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:46:32 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) |
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
> Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>>> Ah yes, I use posting styles
>>>>
>>>> -- whatever they are --
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=gnus+posting+styles
>>
>> Of the first page brought up (10 of 987,000 results), only one even
>> pretends to explain what a posting style is, and that one, on
>> inspection, turns out to start in the middle of a conversation.
[...]
> The very first hit takes you to the gnus posting styles manual entry:
>
> http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_153.html
Evidently it did for you, but it didn't for me, then or now.
> From there it's a question of, well, reading and cross indexing ...
Whatever "cross indexing" is, I suspect it would take a good deal of
it to determine whether, & if so how, this facility would enable me to
distinguish between business & personal postings. In practice, all
newsgroup postings, for me, are personal, so that part is actually
mentioned. For email, however, it is not obvious how to automate the
distinction. For a reply to incoming mail, it depends on whether,
prior to replying, I stowed the email in a subdirectory of ~/b or
~/p. For mail originated by me, I suppose it would depend on
establishing somewhere a list of all my customers -- and remembering
to update it when I got a new customer. All that to avoid remembering
the difference between M-x bsig and M-x psig!
> You're not winding me up here are you? :-)
I don't know that idiom. Is it related to "get the wind up"? That I
have at least heard of. No, I am not trying to alarm you. %^)
--
--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
||: One doesn't fly the enemy's flag, but there is no need to :||
||: call it a bad flag. :||
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, (continued)
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, Joe Fineman, 2009/08/18
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, Richard Riley, 2009/08/18
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, Joe Fineman, 2009/08/19
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, Richard Riley, 2009/08/20
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, Joe Fineman, 2009/08/20
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, Richard Riley, 2009/08/24
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, Joe Fineman, 2009/08/24
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, Richard Riley, 2009/08/24
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures,
Joe Fineman <=
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, Richard Riley, 2009/08/26
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, Lowell Gilbert, 2009/08/24
- Re: ``Quips'' in signatures, Richard Riley, 2009/08/24