Re: Talk: color in .signature???
From Paul Foerster <pau...@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de>
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· 17 Jun 1994 14:51 · View full thread
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In article <2tn6qa$q8...@gagme.wwa.com> sim...@Munchkin.Oz.nthu.edu.tw ( SIMON TNEOH.C.B. ) writes: >G-man (gma...@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. -- .odbo. .od88888888bo. Paul Foerster .od8888888888888888bo. .od888888888888888888888888bo. pau...@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de od88888888888888888888888888888888bo `~888888888888888888888888888888~' `~888888888888888888888888~'| "Beam me up Scotty, there's no `~888888888888888888~' | intelligent life down here!" |`~888888888888~'| | \ `~888888~' / A `-_ `~~' _-' H `--____--'
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