[Leica] Your saloon keeper: the fourth stooge

[r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)]

Ah, yes.  The flash of genius finally hits, then it's immediately followed 
by a dope slap!  :-)

Been there.  Done that.

Regards, 

Dick



On Jun 23, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Brian Reid wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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