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6.5.4 Creating a Signature
A signature is a brief note at the end of an email or newsgroup posting. Often a quote or joke, signa-
tures say something about the author of the message.
To create a signature, do the following, using the text editor Pico:
• Make sure you are in your home directory. At a shell prompt, type pico signature.txt.
• In the window which opens, type the text you want for your signature. You can write on more
than one line; however, netiquette (conventions of politeness recognized on the Internet) frowns
upon signatures longer than a line or two.
• Save the file by using the
save the file, select the
Now, you will have a new file, called signature.txt, in your directory. The full path to the
file will be, for example, /home/newuser/signature.txt. When you write email or post a
message on a newsgroup, the text in signature.txt will automatically appear at the bottom of
your message.
Follow the same steps if you want to change your signature. To delete your signature, open a terminal
and type rm signature.txt.

6.6 Mozilla and Newsgroups

Newsgroups are Internet discussion groups with specific topics. The discussions take place via email
and subscribing to a group is very easy. You don't even have to post messages if you don't want to;
you can just "lurk." There are a great many newsgroups on the Web with topics ranging from politics
to computer games to random strange thoughts.
To join a newsgroup, you first need to set up a newsgroup account. Click on your mail account name
in the sidebar and select
The New Account Setup
[Ctrl]-[X] key combination. When you are asked whether you want to
key for "yes."
[Y]
Create a new account
screen appears. Select
Chapter 6:The Mozilla Web Browser
from the options that appear on the right of the screen.
Newsgroup account and click on Next .