Richard Webb wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

 RW> I can now purge both on the first of the month easier.  I see no
 RW> reason to keep old issues around, and this makes life easier.

TL> Some folks keep them for hysterical purposes.  I suppose I should
TL> make the old versions available for download.

 RW> I guess, but for those of us who aren't historians there's
 RW> no reason for the excess clutter .  GLad some folks do,
 RW> such as fidonews from the old days when there was actually
 RW> some content .

One man's clutter is another man's history.


 RW> Music's an entirely different thing.  HEck, I was known to
 RW> save safety copies of mixdown sessions in my studio, 

And don;t forget all the out-takes and flubs.  I wish I could find it, but
years ago I produced radio commercials.  I remember one spot that had about
3 minutes worth of copy in it.  After about 100 takes, the poor announcer
finally got it into 60 seconds....you could not understand a single
word...and when I told him it was a good take, he grabbed the mike, threw
it against the wall and then sailed the water pitcher into the mess.


 RW> STill, the consistent naming convention helps, along with
 RW> the shorter description lines I've seen in last couple.
 RW> Makes the whole purge process easier .

There is a lot in the echolist that doesn't vary.  I could make the list
shorter if I could look for unchanged text from the previous month and
substitute that with

Hebrews 13:8
the same yesterday,today and forever

cya,
thom
http://www.echolist.net/ 
--- GEcho 1.20/Pro