OT please sign your posts

Aahhhh - Houston!!

I can only dream!!

Ditto, and maybe a location?

Anna Belle in Palm Bay

I don't like signing in a group with different skills regarding quoting, my name and homeland you can find in my emailadres :) But specially for you and this occasion I made a small sig.......:)

I do like the locations... maybe I'm just slow and have to read it 100 times before I remember... but for me remembering who is who helps when I can remember where "home" is -- doesn't have to be specific at all... a state is just fine for US folks... and country is fine for others....

I try to remember everybody -- but I'm getting old (50 next year!) and the memory is fading fast. I can live with that... as long as the eyesight holds out. LOL

Kate in MI

Oh, I *so* agree with you, Pat! It's so difficult to remember who " snipped-for-privacy@so-and-so.com" might be! It's relatively easy in most newsreader programs to add a permanent signature so that it's just there automatically.... :)

before I remember...

doesn't have to be

for others....

memory is fading fast. I

Kate, My reason exactly, will be 70 in a couple of months. Hard to remember stuff, but so glad to be here to try. Anna Belle in Palm Bay

Tricia in TX (really close to Houston)

They boxed up all the land records and shipped them off to somewhere in Texas to be restored, maybe. Since Katrina, we really don't know where we are. Polly in the Alabama, Mississipi, Florida or Georgia Swamp.

In the Tools menu, select "Account Settings". Find the name of the account you use for reading news. There is a box to check for "Attach this signature" and another box for a file name. There is a place to choose the file you want to use for your signature. It's just a plain text file.

Julia >

Have just tested how I did it, and it worked:

1 Write how you want your siggy in a Word doc. and save as Plain Text. (It may say you will lose the formatting on it etc. but save it that way anyway!) 2 Click on News Account in Thunderbird. 3 Then in Accounts click on View settings for this account. 4 Attach this signature - tick the box 5 Click the Choose button 6 Find where you put the siggy in Instruction 1. Click on Open 7 Hey presto - that location is now entered in the little box and your siggy will automatically appear when you reply to someone. It goes under the message you are replying too, so don't forget its there!

I'm not using Thunderbird at the moment because, having been good for

5 weeks it has suddenly decided that I want 25,000 messages downloaded every time, and somehow a superfluous heading has appeared under News Account called News, which wont go away despite having been deleted. Was spending too much time on sorting it, so have reverted to old trusted Free Agent till I find the solution.

-- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)

Yes, its a bit like having to look on the envelope to see who a letter is from!

When I read mail my eyes go first to the Heading, and then the eyes go straight down to the message and the signature. I don't even see the name on the title bar, which is often different from the actual Siggy anyway. Mine is different - to be thought of as 'Sally Swindells' rather than Sally from the UK seaside is much too formal. I think the location is vital too - makes the posts much more meaningful especially as this is a worldwide group, and in a lot of cases more than one person with the same first name. Locations can be very wide - there is a lot of Seaside in the UK!

If you wrote a handwritten note to someone who knew your writing you would put your name at the bottom - just friendly.

-- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)

LOL I have you down in my mind as Sally Swindles at the Seaside

Ooh Pat,can you squeeze me in your suitcase,or maybe not,there would'nt be room for all the "stuff" you might want to take home!lol

Sounds like the making of a great tongue twister to me!

Kate in MI

Whew! I knew someone would be able to help Tricia! I've never used Thunderbird, but I can help with MT-NewsWatcher, if someone on a Mac is using that. :)

ROFLOL!

before I remember...

doesn't have to be

for others....

memory is fading fast. I

Oh, Dear Polly. We ALL know where you are.......right there in front of your compie talking with us and that is all that matters :) Long as My Gators keep getting teh ' *&^% ' I send them you have no worries :)

Butterfly