quoth the Etaoin Shrdlu: > I know this is silly and OT, but after some googling seems to me that > nothing exists that does what I'm looking for. > > When you reply to an email, the MUA more or less automatically starts > your message with a short intro along the lines of "on %date, %author > wrote:" or something like that. > > Some degree of customization is possible, so many people modify the above > message in more or less humorous variants (eg, "on %date the world > stopped and listened as %author contributed the following to > humanity:"). > > There are a lot of email signature generators (fortune, sigrot, etc.), > but I wasn't able to find an equivalent tool to generate these intros. > > Does somebody know if one exists? Or, alternatively, if some collection > of introductory phrases exists somewhere in Internet (I found none)? > > Yes, I know it's silly. Only, with the plenty of tools the opensource > world gives you, it just seems strange to me that nothing exists to do > such a simple job. > > Thanks
I am not sure it is possible, if so, I think it would depend on the MUA. For instance, kmail allows you to use an external program to generate a sig, but no such option exists for reply statement. You can change it, sure, but there is no way to get an external program to change it dynamically. This isn't to say it isn't possible, just that you need a MUA which will allow it. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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