Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/13

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Perl scripts for LUG reading
From: Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 20:40:23 -0400

By the times you do all this, I've already read the message I want to 
read, and have disposed of the ones I don't want to read.

Allan


On Thursday, April 13, 102, at 04:10 PM, Tom Bryant wrote:
>  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)

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