"Snippet" database

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

In my various guises I find myself sending out the same rote email
answer to many people.  "Thanks for the patch; applied" and stuff.  It
would be nice if one could just mark the region, ask Emacs to pull it
into a database of snippets, and then have a command that would insert
them again.

Surely something like this already exists in Emacs, but I just can't
seem to find it.  Probably looking for the wrong thing...

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