Wayne Davison <trn@clari.net>

> How do I get rid of the "you'll be spending money if you post this"
> message, as well as the rest of the defaults?  I would like to be able
> to hit r, R, f, or F and have trn jump into vi with the signature file
> already attached.

Make sure you're running a modern version of trn with the latest Pnews
installed and set the environment variable FAST_PNEWS=y either in a
.trninit file or in a .login/.profile shell script and the prompts for
posting vanish.  To have a signature file already attached, use
~/.news_sig instead of ~/.signature (see the Pnews man page).

For a small site it also works to put "-EFAST_PNEWS=y" in the INIT
file for the entire site.  I suggest not doing this for a large site,
as the extra questions might help a new user understand where their
postings are going.

For the reply-side, if you have a smart mailer you can by-pass the
Rnmail script completely.  I have the following definitions in my
.trninit file to call elm directly with the correct info:

-EMAILPOSTER="elm -i %h -s '%'s' %t"
-EFORWARDPOSTER="elm -i %h -s '%'[subject]' %q"

In this case you'll have to use elm's signature-handling, since
this by-passes the Rnmail script completely (i.e. ~/.mail_sig
handling is done in this script).

Alternately, you could tweak the Rnmail script and use the modified
version.  See the default definitions for MAILPOSTER and FORWARDPOSTER
in the trn man page for what to plug into these variables to use a
modified script.

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