Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Luggers, I've been lurking for some years, and have been a bit dismayed at the amount of pure flaming drivel that is deposited here. But most internet banter is like that. This was said around a decade ago: Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. -- Gene Spafford Programmer that I am, I've started to read the lug in a different sort of way. First, I go through all of the month's accumulated LUG messages, and clobber unwanted lines (e.g. Do You Yahoo?). Then I edit out all copies-of-copies of messages that a writer is answering (we've already read the originals, so who needs the copies?). Finally, I take these edited files over to another directory, and just look for keywords and phrases. I collect all articles that contain the desired word/phrase into a file all it's own, and just read that. This makes the LUG much more interesting, as I filter out what I don't want (egregious flames) and what I'm interested in (technical and photographic trivia) I've written a couple of perl scripts to assist me, and a non-programmer friend suggested that others might find these of use, as he does. I've therefore posted them on my web site: http://208.218.135.74/top/top.html Click on "Perl for the Lug". Some cautionary notes. These run just fine on my Linux box, and my friend's mac, (itself a Unix machine). In theory, they should run just fine on windoze, (provided you've installed Perl!) but I haven't tested them on that platform. Anyway, enjoy, and hope they're worth more than you've paid for them. Tom - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html