Create stubs for the various points where a user might want to customise Alaveteli via their theme, as per suggestions by @dcabo on [the mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/alaveteli-dev/msg/f50eba23f75b5c75)

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+# Add a callback - to be executed before each request in development,
+# and at startup in production - to patch existing app classes.
+# Doing so in init/environment.rb wouldn't work in development, since
+# classes are reloaded, but initialization is not run each time.
+# See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7072758/plugin-not-reloading-in-development-mode
+#
+require 'dispatcher'
+Dispatcher.to_prepare do
+    OutgoingMessage.class_eval do
+        # Add intro paragraph to new request template
+        def default_letter
+            return nil if self.message_type == 'followup'
+            #"If you uncomment this line, this text will appear as default text in every message"    
+        end
+    end        
+end