
 randonsig v1.0 is (c) 2000 Suso Banderas
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  Description - randomsig is a program that makes it easy to
		generate random signatures for each email
		without the use of a crontab entry.  It does
		this through the Un*x named pipe mechanism.


  If you have any bug fixes or suggestions to improve this program,
please see the "Contact" section of this document .  An extensive
list of planned features is in the 'TODO' file included with this
program.


  Installation
  ------------

  Put randomsig somewhere in your home directory (I usually make a bin
directory in my homedir for such programs).  Open the randomsig file
and edit the options at the top of the file to configure the program for
you're use.  The program should be able to run as a normal user.

  There are two additional files that you may want to create.  They are
'.sigquote' and '.sigcancel'.  The program is configued by default to read
these files in when the program is started.   '.sigquote' can contain a
group of quotes(one per line) that will be added to the group of lines
that will be choosen from at random.  It is used to inject some of your
own sayings into the pool of lines that will be choosen from at random.
  The other file '.sigcancel' contains a list of regular expressions(one
per line) that can be used to filter out certain from being considered
in the pool of lines that will be randomly choosen from.


   How to use
   ----------

  Simply run it from your like this:

   [suso@suso.org ~]$ randomsig &

  Once you exit your shell the program should stay on in the background.
If your shell behaves differently, stay tuned because I'm working on a
forking version of the program that will go to the background by default.

   History
   -------

   'randomsig' started out as my own personal signature generator for email.
My colleages at work had been writing random sig programs that simply pulled
quotes from a file by line.  My gimick was to write a sig generator that would
pull quotes directly out of my email.  Thus giving some true randomness to the
whole thing as well as providing some interesting and sometimes humorous
coinsidences between the subject matter of the email and the random sig that
popped up. 

   Eventually I decided to beef it up for more(and easier) configurability as
well as make it more efficient.  One way I did this was by turning it into a
program that uses a named pipe to produce it's output instead of running from
a crontab every 5 minutes.


  Contact
  -------

  Please send bug reports, suggestions, requests or correspondence to Suso Banderas
  at 'suso@suso.org'.  You can visit the homepage for this program at:

   http://suso.suso.org/programs/randomsig/
