psychic signature generator?

merlyn on 2003-03-26T04:12:44

I was looking at a journal entry response I had written, and the quote at the bottom of the page was:

Randal said it would be tough to do in sed.  He didn't say he didn't understand sed.  Randal understands sed quite well.  Which is why he uses Perl.   :-)
--Larry Wall in <7874@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>

How did it know to pull up a quote that mentions me? {grin}

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sig generators

koschei on 2003-03-26T04:37:40

Something I've always wanted, but never known how to write,
is a sig generator in email that looks at what you wrote
and chooses something apposite.

When I used to use taglines more often, I'd frequently be
spending a minute or so cycling through random ones until
I found one that was reasonably appropriate.

Re:sig generators

BooK on 2003-03-26T09:40:34

I have a file of about 120 quotes from Groo The Wanderer (the comic book by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier), and I've often been startled by how appropriate the random quote was. (Reviews and quotes can be found here.)

But when it's not appropriate, I know where to grep to find a better one...

Re:sig generators

jordan on 2003-03-26T17:30:58

I was, at one time, convinced that Tom Christiansen had something like this for Usenet postings. He'd always have a different signature quote and some of them were very appropriate to the subject at hand, too much so to be random. Other times, they were really unrelated, but somehow appropriate. Now, in retrospect, I'm wondering if he didn't select the quotes from a file, because sometimes they were too good for automation

You can judge for yourself.

Re:sig generators

vsergu on 2003-03-28T20:05:19

I've wondered the same thing about Mark Brader.