#Desc: My personal page about this genious newsreader. I also have written a "quick start" file for it, but that one is in german only. Take a look at the official page for an english version.
slrn - the newsreader
You will find here some more info about the one and only true
newsreader in the future. Currently I can only offer you these things:
Yes, I know, it's not much, but here is a list you might be
interested in. In the newsgroup at.linux there started a
discussion about the One True Signature-Color[tm] which
produced some nice things (newer shots are added at the end of the list!):
StatNews
Report for at.linux: In this list you find the amount of users with
an X-Signature-Color: header and what colors they are
using.
YaNR: Yet
another NewsReport *smirks* It uses different
settings and a slightly different script than Jochen's stats
above.
slrn-0.9.6.2.patch: A patch for
slrn-0.9.6.2 written by Thomas Themel that sets the color to his
true color ;-)
sigcolor.sl:
A genious slang-script that sets the sig-color within slrn depending on
the posters X-Signature-Color: Header field. Also written by
Thomas Themel. You have to adjust the bg-color and the default-color to
your likes, of course :)
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root.jpg: Thomas Themel's screenshot of his color
representation.
slrn_nt.png:
Again a screenshot from Thomas Themel, from slrn running under
Windows-NT.
slrn.png: Peter
Bergt's try on producing acceptable colors representation of
colors. The signature is the last part (the green one) - at least I was
told so. Hard to tell on a spoiled article, you know...
slrn.png: This is my own screenshot of
my color settings. Those are strongly inspired by the Debian defaults for
mutt - which I think are the most useable and comfortable colors I've
ever seen. Depends if you like dark background, that is, right ;)
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pics.html: Finally this is Sven Guckes page about slrn with some
screenshots. Regarding to this he is into the green-signature
division.
slrn-shot.jpeg: This one is done by
Jochen Striepe. Finally he managed to do a real shot :) He used the
same posting as me - I think that one is a quite good reference to
compare the color-settings :)
slrnchf.jpg: Christian Fiedler likes to
present his choise of colors, too. I think he has choosen a quite nice
article to do so ;-)
Thanks to Christian himself this picture could be saved from some
over-productive sysadmins at his university who canceled his account. I
now have the picture living locally - thanks again.
Further more you SHOULD keep in mind the following paragraph that is
a so far quite unknown excerpt of the RFC "1036 - Key words for use in
RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels":
2.1. Required Header lines
....
2.1.7. X-Signature-Color
This line shows the color of the signature on the system, where the
message entered the network. Valid colors are:
"black" "red" "green" "blue" "magenta" "cyan" "lightgray"
"gray" "brightgreen" "yellow" "brightblue" "brightmagenta"
"brightcyan" and "white".
The line MUST contain the forground color and OPTIONAL the background
color of the display system. If both colors are given they SHOULD be
different.
Note: This line is a "Required Header Line" in the newsgroup
"at.linux", and a "Optional Header Line" in other newsgroups.
Note also: The header line may be written "X-Signature-Color" in the
United Kingdom, and "X-Signatur-Colour" by careless users.
The required regexp to match the line is /X-Signature?-Colou?r:/.
Much thanks to Leopold Toetsch for discovering this important piece
of documentation!