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[Eyvind Ness <eyvind.ness@hrp.no>]

  | Date: Thu, 25 June 1992, 11:46 -0400
  | From: Scott McKay
  |
  |     Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 09:29 EDT
  |     From: Eyvind Ness <eyvind.ness@hrp.no>
  | 
  |       | Date: Thu, 25 June 1992, 11:45 +0200
  |       | From: Vincent Keunen
  |       |
  |       | Is there a way to define signatures to be automatically added to the end
  |       | of a mail message?
  |       | 
  |       | vk
  | 
  |     Put the above file somewhere along your `load-path' and give it a spin.
  | 
  |     BTW: I'm using Kyle Jones' VM (View Mail) package for GNU Emacs. Try it
  |     - it's great.
  | 
  |     Eyvind.
  | 
  | >>> +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
  | >>>  Eyvind Ness                    Internet Email: Eyvind.Ness@HRP.No
  | >>>  Research Scientist             Phone: +47 9 183100
  | >>>  Control Room Systems Division  Fax: +47 9 187109
  | >>>  OECD Halden Reactor Project    Surface Mail: P.O. Box 173, N-1751 Halden
  | >>>  Norway
  | >>> +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
  | >>>
  | >>>
  | >>>  -A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is
  | >>> not worth knowing. Alan Perlis
  | 
  | @begin(curmudgeon)
  | 
  | While I am surely in the minority in the so-called "real world", I
  | have to say that I detest signatures.  And greetings, too.
  | 
  | Must we really give in to this ridiculous piece of Unix weeniedom?
  | If I want to know your snail-mail address or phone number, I'll ask.
  | I don't need to know your network address, since it's already in the
  | message header.  (And please, don't tell me that some mailers garble
  | the message headers, because I'll just tell you to fix the offending
  | mailers.)
  | 
  | And last but definitely not least, I don't want to see quotes from
  | science fiction writers, Sherlock Holmes, computer scientists, or
  | even the Simpsons, on every piece of mail from someone.  It gets
  | pretty tired very quickly.
  | 
  | In my own defense, I am not the only person here at Symbolics who
  | feels this way.
  | 
  | @end(curmudgeon)

Well, OK with me, if that's how you feel - but note that it's an
*option* to add the .sig, not something to "give in to" (at least the
way I have programmed it in the source I posted, but I guess you didn't
actually peruse it ;-) It is also an *option* to live outside "the real
world". I have little trouble understanding that you might want to do
just that ;-)

Also, I'm sorry if I offended the slug community with something that
wasn't native 'bolics hackery.

Eyvind.

-Look, there is no .sig!