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On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> wrote:
> Is there some standard library or code for taking an e-mail or
> newsgroup message & generating a reply to it?

You might try searching for "mail reply" on pypi.python.org. That will
return a number of hits. I know the python.org replybot is there and
used frequently. It might be a good starting point.

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