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From: paul@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de (Paul Foerster)
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Subject: Re: Talk: color in .signature???
Date: 17 Jun 1994 09:51:03 -0500
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In article <2tn6qa$q8q@gagme.wwa.com> simon@Munchkin.Oz.nthu.edu.tw (SIMON TNEOH.C.B.) writes:
>G-man (gman@ccnet.com) wrote:

>> is it possiable to add color  to you .signature in you mail or in 
>> newsgroup postings??? =) that woul dbe cool.. I saw something like that.. 
>> have no idea how he did it .. but he made the whole screen turn green... 
>> help me please 
>    You can mail your .signature in color but whether your friends can read 
>it or not is their problems, they've to set "display mail using:" option to 
>"/usr/bin/more" if they're using elm. These ansi codes can't be read in 
>newsgroups. ( Maybe some systems can... ) That friend has colour fullname
>and he doesn't change it back to normal so we can see the screen turn green.
>You can try it with "chfn" in unix. And the title of the news can be added
>color too.

... again, not all people in the world use unix! So i strongly recommend not 
to use colored signatures. If there is a colored .sig and i'd like to see it, 
i have to cut it out and view it separately. I think that's not the way it 
should be. A signature should be viewable directly on screen while reading the 
post/mail. At least imho.



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