Hi Paul,

On Thu 2037-Apr-23 09:21, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Richard Webb:

 PQ>> Now I'm using Google Groups but they only distribute digests in
 PQ>> email.  :(

 RW> Not surprised, newsgroup service is much poorer than it was. Hate to
 RW> say it, and not quite topical here but google is a real problem with
 RW> the spammers in a lot of those I read because they don't filter them
 RW> out at all, in fact many originate from google groups. curious how
 RW> many spams you see for knockoff designer clothing and shoes made in
 RW> China in those google digests, because we sure see 'em in the raw
 RW> newsgroup feeds.

PQ> I recall seeing maybe one or two, surprisingly in a NASA NG... I
PQ> think.  But, they were in amongst a hundred-or-so other real posts. 
PQ> No great hassle.  It don't matter as they're just for my reading
PQ> pleasure.  I don't export those posts.  (In fact I propose to use my
PQ> batch splitter, using Mpost, to set the 'sent' attribute on posts
PQ> that it makes, so that they cannot ever be exported.) 

Understood.  Mine does its thing for export to others
though, a backbone echo in fact in most cases.

 PQ>> Okay.  Mmm... I use a special email address and a Fido email
 PQ>> handler called "Transnet" (which has its own Fido
address) to do

 RW> I've got that here, and will eventually set it up, but I"ve
 RW> only the one email address and would be a pita.

PQ> Ooh, just noticed that the author's site is back up:

PQ>   http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/transnet/index.html

  I thought it had to be registered.

PQ> Transnet is still 'open-source' and he has a later source archive
PQ> available there!  :)

I"ve got it, looked at it but would have to get another
email account as well.

 PQ>> [ ...I understood about a fifth of that... ]


 RW> ::remove some mime strangeness which happens when the fellow forwards
 RW> me amateur radio newsline.
 RW> chg /i newsline.txt /s =20 /r ""

PQ> Ooh, sweet...

PQ> (Transnet does that itself, BTW.)
MIght be worth giving it a look even more then, even if I
had to do something strange.

PQ> (I hope I've re-constructed your batch correctly, as there was some
PQ> wierd paragraphing going on in the editor.  No doubt it'll get worse
PQ> with this reply. ;-)


Looks like it.  YOu got the basic idea what I"m about with
these anyway.

PQ> Uh, huh.  That's what I'd figured.  I'll be doing the same thing,
PQ> except one-at-a-time postings, as the batch dawdles down through the
PQ> text file a line at a time... rather than as a bunch of posts as
PQ> you're doing. 

YEp, could be done.  Have looked at much the same thing for
a couple of uses.

PQ> Thanks again, Richard.

Glad to be of help .  YOuv'e sure steered me the right
direction on a few things over last couple of years .


Regards,
           Richard
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