[Leica] Your saloon keeper: the fourth stooge

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

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