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Message   Anubis    Steve Winn   System Taglines?   March 19, 2007
 7:52 AM  

> Create a file in your \VA\TXT directory called TAGLINE.x where x is a number
> from 0 to 89. In this file, put the tagline you want to appear at the bottom
> the message. In VConfig, select the database and in the field asking for the
> tagline, enter the number of the tagline to use for that database. You can ha
> 90 taglines that way.
>
> Taglines 90-99 are reserved for random taglines. I never can remember how thi
> works since I haven't ever used it. I have a doc somewhere on it or one of th
> other sysops can probably tell you how it works. Actually there is probably a
> message post in here on it.
>
> For email, you can create EMAIL.TAG in the TXT directory, and all email will
> have the tagline.

Excellent, I'll try it out later today!

> Anyway as you probably know, taglines are best at 3 lines or under and avoid
> heart colors or ANSI on FIDOnet or other networks in which they will be readi
> it in pure ASCII. Heart codes on VirtualNET are fine.

Yeah, I've noticed several minor flame wars in various message networks over
peoples' use of ANSIed tags; I'll be keeping that behavior to a minimum.


Thanks again Steve!

Larry


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