[Leica] Your saloon keeper: the fourth stooge

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Brian,

regardless of how you actually do it, thanks for all that you do for us.

Peter

Brian Reid wrote:
> I've been running the LUG using the same software (MHonArc) for 18
> years, and for 18 years the job of closing out a digest volume and
> opening a new one has been tedious.
> 
> Today I closed out volume 44 and began a new volume. Part of closing out
> a volume is regenerating all of the indexes so that instead of saying
> 
>    Topic index of LUG archive for Vol 44 (Jan 2010 - )
> 
> they say
> 
>    Topic index of LUG archive for Vol 44 (Jan 2010 - Jun 2010)
> 
> Not a big deal, but it is a deal. Somehow, for 18 years I have failed to
> realize that if I delete one message from the archive after closing the
> volume, the software will automatically regenerate the index to close it
> up around the now-gone message.
> 
> I close out volumes rarely enough that I have written down the procedure
> and follow it from written notes notes every time. I have just added to
> my written procedure these steps:
> 
>   * Add a junk message to the archive
>   * Edit the index configuration file to have the truth about dates
>   * Delete the junk message that you just added.
> 
> Whew. I think I'll use the extra 2 hours that this has given me to go
> take pictures of something.
> 
> Brian Reid
> LUG Saloon Keeper
> 
> 
> 
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Dr Peter Dzwig