| From: | John Reed |
| Date: | 21 Mar 2001 at 22:50:07 |
| Subject: | Re: Spring Cleaning |
Hi, On 21 Mar 01 03:12:39 John Marchant said:
> >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.
Sounds very much what I want to do myself. I also run DOpus and
can see the benefits of creating an edit button. If you don't mind,
could you please let me have a copy of your pruner script and I'll
give it a go. Many thanks.
Regards, John Reed
docbim@hol.gr
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