[geeks] Email Disclaimers

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 @ 16:12 -0600, Dan Duncan said:

> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > So I created a database of quotations that met some simple criteria: I
> > liked it, or it was personally relevant, or it otherwise touched me in
> > some way.
> >
> > I have a program which chooses one and formats it every so often.
> 
> In my case, vi is both an alias and a script that chooses a random
> quote from a flat file, stuffs it into my .signature, and then calls
> /bin/vi so every email and every USENET post has a random quote.

I used to do that, but there are a few times when I'm in different
programs, and I still want the same feature, so I just rotate the file.

One of the first UNIX socket programs I ever wrote was a program 
where ~/.signature was a pipe, fed by a program which generated
a signature.


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