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Re: [Pan-users] My Wish List


From: laurent . duperval
Subject: Re: [Pan-users] My Wish List
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:55:15 -0400 (EDT)

On 18 Jul, Toby Inkster wrote:
> Following on from Marcelo, here are a couple of things I'd like to see
> included. Both should be trivially easy, but alas my lack of knowledge
> of string functions in C bars me from attempting to implement them :-(
> 
> 1. Dynamic Signatures
> 
> Pan should check the name of the signature file being used. If the name
> ends in "|", then it should strip the "|" from the end of the file name,
> *run* the specified file as an executable and use its STDOUT as the
> signature.
> 
> This way we can have nice fortunes in our signatures. Yay.
> 

Or, you can crontab it and have it change automatically evey minute.

> A further idea would be to optionally pass the newsgroup as an argument
> to the program. This would nicely allow for custom signatures for each
> newsgroup.
> 

Hmm, now that's a thought. You can file an enhancement request in bugzilla.

L

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Laurent Duperval <address@hidden>

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