Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

From: JoeHill (joehill_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 09/25/04

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    Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:56:41 -0400
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    On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:40:18 -0400
    Michael Marsh disseminated the following:

    > I found that running it in my .cshrc changed my signature often enough for my
    > tastes, but you could go nuts and set up a cron job that runs every minute if
    > you really want to (not that I could stop you anyway).

    I don't know what mail client is involved here (missed the rest of the thread),
    but don't most mail clients allow you to run a command to generate the sig per
    message? ie. Sylpheed, Evo, K-Mail, etc.

    Also, you can use the built in functionality of 'fortune' and create your own
    fortune files, this is the howto I used:

    http://clevername.homeip.net/howto/

    Sylpheed runs this for me:

    #!/bin/bash
    echo `uptime`
    echo "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
    echo `fortune /home/joehill/sigs/quotes`
    exit

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