[Leica] Your saloon keeper: the fourth stooge

[fredhess at phenix-visuals.nl (Fred Hess)]

Dear Brian,

Thumbs up !! Thank you for all your effort.
Very much appreciated.

Kind regards from The Hague / The Netherlands

Fred Hess



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Reid" <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: donderdag 24 juni 2010 3:45
Subject: [Leica] Your saloon keeper: the fourth stooge


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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