Signature, Finger, & Customized Headers FAQ

Archive-name: signature_finger_faq
Posting-frequency: approximately monthly
Last-modified: 25 April 1995

Current hypertext version:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/signature_finger_faq/faq.html

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  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  0.0 Preliminaries
      0.1 Getting the Latest Version of this FAQ
          0.1.1 Hypertext
          0.1.2 Plain Text
      0.2 Terminology
      0.3 Notation
  1.0 Setting up Your Signature
      1.1 General Unix Instructions
      1.2 Specific Mailer & Newsreader Instructions
          1.2.1 Pine
                1.2.1.1 Pine 3.90 and Later
                1.2.1.2 Pine 3.89 and Earlier
          1.2.2 Elm
          1.2.3 Mail
          1.2.4 SUN OpenWindows Mailtool
          1.2.5 Emacs Mail Mode
          1.2.6 MH and Emacs mh-e
          1.2.7 NN
          1.2.8 GNUS
      1.3 Testing Your Signature 
      1.4 Troubleshooting Your Signature 
  2.0 Finger
      2.1 How to Finger
          2.1.1 Unix Finger Command
          2.1.2 Using a Web Browser to Finger
          2.1.3 Fingering Yourself
          2.1.4 Interesting Places to Finger
      2.2 Changing Your Finger Information
          2.2.1 Using chfn to change your full name (and more)
          2.2.2 Creating Your .plan and .project files
      2.3 Finding Out Who Fingers You
          2.3.1 Backfinger Script
  3.0 What to Put in Your Signature and Finger Files
      3.1 URLs
      3.2 Ascii Art
      3.3 Animated Text Strings
      3.4 Robot Fodder
      3.5 Newsgroups for Sig Discussion
  4.0 Customized Headers
      4.1 Your From Header
      4.2 Specific Mailer and Newsreader Instructions
          4.2.1 Tin and the RN Family
          4.2.2 Pine 3.90 and Later
          4.2.3 Elm
          4.2.4 NN
  5.0 Mailer and Newsreader References
  6.0 Contributors
      6.1 Acknowledgements
      6.2 If You'd Like to Contribute
  7.0 Copyright Notice