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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Feb 1995.
Re: Random .sigs in UNIX

Re: Random .sigs in UNIX

In article <3hj9gi$s4...@news.xmission.com>, robobob@xmission (Friendly Human Person) writes:
>Below is the small perl script I use to randomize my signature.  There 
>are a few ways to use this, you can either put the command in your .login 
>file, in which case you will get a new .sig everytime you log in, or you 
>can alias the programs which need it like this:
>  alias pine randsig;/usr/local/bin/pine
>  alias tin randsig;/usr/local/bin/tin
>which results in a new sig everytime you run pine or tin, you could even 
>crontab it, to give you a new sig every few minutes.  How this works is 
>to copy a random sig from the directory indicated by @files into 
>$HOME/.signature when it is run.

Do you know if this would work with ELM???

Steven
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Subject: Re: Random .sigs in UNIX
Date: 12 Feb 1995 16:05:25 GMT
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