| From: | John Marchant |
| Date: | 21 Mar 2001 at 01:12:39 |
| Subject: | Re: Spring Cleaning |
In a message on 20-Mar-01 20:59:43, John Reed wrote:
>I'm attempting to tidy about a year's worth of amigactive mails and
>archive the most useful to a spare partition. I am thinking of using
>general subject headings such as Hardware/Software/WB/WebNet
>etc., and have subheadings for things of specific interest.
Yes, I do that, with similar subject headings. I wait for a rainy
day when I've nothing more useful to do and I settle down with a
coffee pot and biscuits handy.
>In order to view these archived files, the only thing I can think of
>is to have a copy of MD-II running OR transfer them as ASCII,
>which really means having to edit them first.
I have 2 categories of kept mail and newsgroups. The smaller is
email I've filtered at the time of reception, and I seldom
spring-clean that. But most of my kept stuff is copied as ASCII
into the category drawers and then deleted from the database. The
only editing I do is to run an arexx utility I wrote which removes
unwanted headings such as message ID, path, etc etc. I usually
keep From:, Subject:, Date:, and Newsgroup:. I use Dopus to mark a
group of files I want to prune in this way, and then start my
pruner. It's not really very effective as I've not tried to prune
signatures, Yahoo adverts and suchlike. But any such that are
consistently identifiable could easily be added to the pruner.
John
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