Generate fortune signatures with mail

hi again, i've already posted this in the "Mail & Address Book - Tiger" section but didn't get any feedback - the positive thing about that: nobody said that this is not possible
i would be glad about a solution because i like mail and want to contiune useing it! (btw i am new to os x)
so here comes the original question:
hi, everyone!
i want to add a random signature everytime i compose a new mail. this signature should be generated with the stdout put from the good old command line tool 'fortune'.
i've already written an applescript that will do that but i don't want to execute the script everytime i want to write a new mail instead this should be done automatically evertime i hit compose mail.
i didn't found a solution yet and when i search for 'random signature' they always come up with the functionality to choose a random signature of all available sigantures... a bad solution might be to create 1000 signatures
have anyone of you an idea to realize that - with or without applescript?!
thx
PB-G4-12" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

as told i've already a script that does this... but i don't want to use a cronjob for execute this but the mail.app itself...
this would be a much more elegant solution
even the possiblity to read from files for a signature would be nicer...
it disappoints me a bit that an app in version 3.0 can't do this (ok, 2.0, but i guess 3.0 can't either)
thx

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