Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html