On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:26:57PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> i only meant, when i fortune-ify a set of 40 tips, and then want
> to add seven more... but even then it doesn't sound too
> difficult.
I use fortune for the randomized quotes in my sig, and it's easy to add
new quotes. Just separ
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote:
> > I'll just dump sufficiently fuxnored posts -- too much work to get my
> > mind around them. All are advised.
>
> fuxnored is another term for another time. (it'll have to be -- i
> just now encountered it for the first time myself, and am
> enjoying
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The opposite is called "Jeopardy email," replying before the answer:)
I always liked "monkey quoting". I don't know why, but I like it.
--
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:10:30PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> always put your reply AFTER the paragraph or sentence you're
> responding to.
>
> that's called "postfix" notation, boys and girls. it's good
> manners, and shows you're willing to put some effort in being
>
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:43:25PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:45:01PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > when i quote an email in a reply, i scroll down until i get to
> > the not-so-pertinent part, and in vim i do
> >
> > dG
> >
> > to obli
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:22:57PM -0500, ktb wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:45:01PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
>
>
> > when i quote an email in a reply, i scroll down until i get to
> > the not-so-pertinent part, and in vim i do
> >
> > dG
> >
>
> When you do this how do you append
on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:22:57PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:45:01PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
>
>
> > when i quote an email in a reply, i scroll down until i get to
> > the not-so-pertinent part, and in vim i do
> >
> > dG
> >
>
> When you do th
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:45:01PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> when i quote an email in a reply, i scroll down until i get to
> the not-so-pertinent part, and in vim i do
>
> dG
>
When you do this how do you append your sig? Seems you would snip that
also.
kent
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on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:45:01PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:12:34PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:24:01AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > > --
> > > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP:
> > > What's a "manpage"? It's the documentation y
Dave Sherohman wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:29:48PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > one thing's for sure -- adding "tip-of-the-moment" to your email
> > sure boosts the likelihood that newbies pay attention to what you
> > say! (which means now i must be more careful about the details,
>
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:12:34PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:24:01AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > --
> > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP:
> > What's a "manpage"? It's the documentation you get when you enter
> > "man SOMETHING" such as "man ps" or "man bash" or "man apt-setup".
>
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:26:57PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > >
> > > BTW --
> > >
> > > i got this idea from the postgresql "pg-general" mailing list; they
> > > append a random tip to each outgoing message. (i've only seen five
> > > distinct tips, which ain't too impressive, but the conc
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> [ ... about fiddling with mutt to get fancy signatures ...]
What I'd really like (and implement if I had the time) is for
mutt to have an option to check on startup if .signature is a
pipe, and if so to write into it the header of th
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:12:34PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote:
>
> So I can automatically strip it out when I reply? Would save me from
> having to delete even more from a message. On another tangent, could
> everyone do me a favor and surround any signature with .
there is already a convention
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:24:01AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> --
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP:
> What's a "manpage"? It's the documentation you get when you enter
> "man SOMETHING" such as "man ps" or "man bash" or "man apt-setup".
>
> ...from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think this is a great idea where every
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:53:20AM +0200, Romain Lerallut wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote:
> > karl and romain -- this indeed looks easy. but it feels like i'll
> > be adding comments and tips daily if not hourly, for a while at
> > least. maybe when it calms down a bit, i'll hamm
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:28:55PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> >
> > > > Have you considered implementing this as a fortune type deal rather than
> > > > your perl script?
> karl a
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:03:09AM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote:
> > # pipe randomized 'tip' from perl script--
> > send-hook debian- "set signature='~/.signature-debian |'"
> > # any email going out to any address containing "debian-"
> > # gets the output of ~/.signature-debian as a
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:28:55PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
>
> > > Have you considered implementing this as a fortune type deal rather than
> > > your perl script?
> >
> > hadn't come up with that concept yet, no. i had cond
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> not very, not yet. when i see question #X go by for the tenth
> time in a month, i add a quickie (and hopefully i don't get them
> wrong). short answer: 26 so far. i try to keep them under four
> lines, but that ain't always feasibl
Will, you could build a fortune cookie database:
build your list of tips in this way:
%
tip of the day:
#rm -rf /mnt/windows
%
other tip of the day:
echo /etc/passwd | mail romain
then run 'strfile', which is part of fortune-mod which builds a ".dat"
file ( that's an index file, I believe)
the
"Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:24:01AM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > in ~/.muttrc:
> >
> > # pipe randomized 'tip' from perl script--
> > send-hook debian- "set signature='~/.signature-debian |'"
> > # any email going out to any addr
> # pipe randomized 'tip' from perl script--
> send-hook debian- "set signature='~/.signature-debian |'"
> # any email going out to any address containing "debian-"
> # gets the output of ~/.signature-debian as a signature block
>
> --
> --
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP:
> What's a
in ~/.muttrc:
# pipe randomized 'tip' from perl script--
send-hook debian- "set signature='~/.signature-debian |'"
# any email going out to any address containing "debian-"
# gets the output of ~/.signature-debian as a signature block
and in ~/.signature-debian
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