[Leica] Your saloon keeper: the fourth stooge

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

Thanks for all that you do to keep this saloon open Brian.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
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On Jun 23, 2010, at 8:45 PM, 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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