Re: ``Quips'' in signatures

[Joe Fineman]

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.  %^)
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---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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