problems with the news-reply-hook and the message-setup-hook

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello

As you may all know today the top *posting style* is the "standard" for
a lot of users and one has almost to apologise  for using *bottom
posting* or *inline replying*. So I modified some old code of bbdbsig
which inserted different signatures according to a certain bbdb
field. 

My code basically follows the same idea, just at the very beginning of
the message there is a line

Hello user,

According to your last mail,


And then comes the quote.

Now that function I have defined interactively and in this way I can
call it, however I would find it more convenient to have it in a hook,
so that I don't have to call the function explicitly however I put it
in the news-reply-hook and in the message-setup-hook without any
result. Can anybody give me an idea?

Thanks and regards
 

Uwe Brauer