TALK: ascii e-mail server

okay, there have been enough request fors .signatures... simple enough so
that a figlet'ed name would do... this is what i've been able to scratch
up. it's a procmail filter so if people send e-mail, with a specific
subject, it will figlet'ize the message body...

(WARNING: this will not be set up until SUNDAY, since i have a pink floyd
 concert to go to tonight, and REAL WORK calls for all of saturday)

To: som...@somewhere.com	(insert your address here)
Subject: REQUEST [font]
-- message body --

FONT standard			(insert font-type)

HELP				(to e-mail back available fonts)

TEXT				(what you want figlet'ed)

NAME				(extra text attached on)

(soon to be implemented, needs discussion)

TYPE				(which style you want)

so far, i have

(CENTER)
	   .--------------------------------------------------.
	   |                                                  |
           |             figlet font is centered              |
	   |                                                  |
	   `--------------------------------------------------'
                      (name information placed here)
(DUPLEX)
.--------------------------------------------------.        name
|                                                  |    information
|             figlet font is centered              |       placed
|                                                  |        here
`--------------------------------------------------'      centered 
(REVERSE)
       name      .--------------------------------------------------.
   information   |                                                  |
      placed     |             figlet font is centered              |
       here      |                                                  |
     centered    `--------------------------------------------------'

obviously the NAME inforation needs spaces, and the priority space will be
the figlet font, if the figlet font takes up too much space, it will return
an error.

i've had to recode figlet to make the calcuation for the "grid-work" i
can't promise that this will become a full-fledged server program... but it
will reduce (hopefully) the amount of requests.

btw: i repeat, this will NOT be set up until sunday night. and please don't
send e-mail to this account... send questions to rog...@axposf.pa.dec.com
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

/rogue:the digital tiger

d.