Re: [Leica] Anyway to organize this list?

["Gerry Walden" <gerrywalden@cwcom.net>]

Brian

I, for one, am grateful of the work you do for us and have no complaints. On
behalf of what I suspect is a silent majority, thank you.

Gerry

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: 20 February 2000 17:20
Subject: Re: [Leica] Anyway to organize this list?


> The digest is created automatically by software that was free. The
> postings are listed in chronological order. If a posting appears 3
> times, then it was received 3 times by the digester, and perhaps was
> even sent 3 times.
>
> A few months ago I put on my crash helmet and went in to modify that
> software so that it did not include MIME or Rich Text or attachments in
> the digest. That was an amazing amount of work, but while I was in
> there I learned enough about the structure of the list-digest software
> to understand that it would be very difficult to modify this program to
> do much of anything different from what it already does. A couple of
> years ago I managed to add the topic headings, and I still have the
> scars on my brain from doing that.
>
> If the world were a perfect place there would be low-priced commercial
> software to do this, but there isn't.
>
> Did you all see the advertisement about 'herding cats' on American TV a
> few weeks ago?