[mdlug] Email sigs (was RE: CAD vs CAE (for linux))

[Garry Stahl]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Morris, Tim
>>  "[B]eing able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more
>> than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer."
>>
>> ... I really like that one! Where do you get these? Is it a 
>> Sig program or are they quotes you made up?
>>     
>
>  That one, as it said in the message, was from Eric Scott Raymond. I
> like collecting pithy, funny, or profound quotes. I currently have...
> let's see... 437 of them. I have a little script that randomly picks
> one for each message. Actually, it's interesting in a Unix sense how I
> do it.
>
>  Most Unix email and news programs will read a 'signature' from a file
> called ".signature" in your home directory, if it exists. I don't have
> a file there, I have a "fifo". On Unix, you can have a 'named pipe', or
> 'fifo' (First In First Out) that programs can read from and write to.
>
>  When a program reads my ".signature", they don't get the contents of
> a file, they get whatever a program at the other end of the fifo feeds
> to them. I have a script called "fifosig.sh" that does the selecting,
> picking a random signature and squirting it through the fifo to whatever
> program reads from the other end.
>   

Can you run this puppy in Thunderbird?

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