killfiles

1999-04-20 Thread Nathaniel Irons
I'm contemplating setting up a badly-needed archive for a great big list, which unfortunately has been partially overrun by a crew of jabbering chuckleheads. There's a lot of good information flying around, but the list is ridiculously high-traffic already (on the order of at least 100K/day),

Re: killfiles

1999-04-20 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 4/20/99 at 11:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Earl Hood) wrote: If you will be archiving high volume, you will probably want to do monthly (or something similiar) based archiving to avoid performance issues. Also, archive updates should probably be done via cron. Thank you. In fact, I'd

escape character?

1999-05-08 Thread Nathaniel Irons
I'd like to instruct my search engine not to index anything from FOLUPBEGIN through FOLUPEND, but unfortunately the engine's command for "ignore this text" is a specific tag within an SGML comment. So when I add the tag to the mhonarc rcfile, mhonarc reasonably ignores it. I can't put those

Re: escape character?

1999-05-08 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 5/8/99 at 1:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathaniel Irons) wrote: This is a pretty pathological case, but is there a mhonarc escape character, or some other means to pass the comment through intact? It turned out own fault - I don't think I understand the FOLUP tags very well, as in the light

Re: archive by months and years

1999-01-02 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 11/4/99 at 1:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrzej Kasperowicz) wrote: I think that it would be better, if Earl could set in Mhonarc by default that it would divide messages by months, and years (into separate folders/pages). One reason I wouldn't want this to happen is that people seem to

Re: one message instead of multiple - why?

1999-01-02 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 11/4/99 at 1:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrzej Kasperowicz) wrote: Mails from the file which I saved from the pegasus mail folder do not want to be processed by mhonarc like separate mails, but as a one mail. Why? What to do about that? Check the MSGSEP resource as Al suggests, but I've

Re: archive by months and years

1999-01-02 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 11/4/99 at 9:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Louis Proyect) wrote: Furthermore, the script does not address itself to date anomalies which are crucial for proper archiving. My mailing list has some messages that, for example, are dated Oct 31, but are filtered into the November archive--only

Re: archive by months and years

1999-01-02 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 11/4/99 at 1:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Louis Proyect) wrote: As I just a moment ago mentioned to Andrzej, if you want to get clever about interpreting date headers in your mailbox-assignment scripts, you're inheriting the responsibility to reject those date headers which are wildly wrong.

Re: error messages

1999-11-11 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 11/11/99 at 10:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Louis Proyect) wrote: In any case, I got past that problem and am now trying to run my own downloaded version of 2.4.3 from my own directory using procmail rather than their older beta version. The very first time I ran it, I got the following

Re: error messages

1999-11-11 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 11/11/99 at 2:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Louis Proyect) wrote: Actually, after Earl made the suggestion to make sure that Perl 5 was being executed, I definded its full path on #!. But even this did not work, You haven't posted a procmail recipe that I've seen, but I'm guessing that you're

Re: Remove Follow-Ups information

1999-11-23 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 11/23/99 at 8:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riccardo Cozzani) wrote: Take a look at http://www.perlulivo.it/effedi/msg1.html I want to remove the horizontal line at the end of the body of the message. That HR is delimited from the below comments: Ah, my apologies. Your English is fine;

Re: persistently linking to within archives

1999-11-23 Thread Nathaniel Irons
Okay. A few choice documents later, I'm on a much firmer footing. I want to belatedly clarify where I'm coming from. My core assumption is this: I'm implementing a system designed to store and retrieve mailing list metadata, for use with current versions of MHonArc, specifically targeting unix

Re: Mhonarc 2.4.4 and MS Access database import

1999-12-21 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 12/20/99 at 12:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan O'Brien) wrote: I would also like to generate a database of all these postings for import into MS Access 97. I also have Cold Fusion 4 available, but its POP implementation doesn't handle unusual mail headers as well as Mhonarc (we have a

Re: mhonarcing an egroups list

2000-01-26 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 1/25/2000 at 7:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kirez Korgan) wrote: he has them either at egroups, or on his home computer in MS Outlook. How shall I convert these archives? Can I process an MS Outlook mailbox if he sends it to me? You're going to have to provide some information about the

Re: Deleting Mail frm Pop Account

2000-01-26 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 1/25/2000 at 7:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to automatically delete the mail MHonArc copies from the pop account during a normal daily archive? MHonArc does not ordinarily interact with POP servers at all; it operates on stored mail files. Perhaps you could provide more

Re: Reprocessing old archives

2000-02-01 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 2/1/2000 at 2:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Sill) wrote: I've just discovered "-spammode", and I'd like to retoactively apply it to my old archives--going back to those archived with MHonArc 1.1.0. I started using mhonarc at about 2.3, so I don't have any idea what'll happen if you sic

Re: MHonArc and PHP (for TITLE Generation)

2000-02-03 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 2/3/2000 at 9:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Losher) wrote: Is there any way to have MHonArc parse out the (")'s in the subject before generating that PHP statement? (I have been doing them by hand in the meantime) I've never written a line of PHP, but I suspect that the reason this

Re: Problems with a fixed width of the lines

2000-02-11 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 2/11/2000 at 12:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Posselt Vestergaard) wrote: My problem is that I need the lines of the mails to be within a fixed space (to not destroy the overall layout of the website). If I understand you correctly, you're specifying new linebreaks for your message

Re: Can't locate auto/Digest/MD5/md5_hex.al

2000-02-24 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 2/24/2000 at 9:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Reisert) wrote: The module I tried to build and install was Digest-MD5-2.09 that I found on CPAN. I did not find an md5_hex anywhere in that kit. Run this line from the shell: perl -e "use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex); print md5_hex(\"you've

Re: Problems downloading 2.4.5

2000-02-17 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 2/17/2000 at 6:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Earl Hood) wrote: Hmmm, works for me. Could be you have a nack of hitting servers when they are having problems. He probably included the period at the end of your sentence. Try this: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/EHOOD/ -nat

Re: Search suggestion for MHonarc

2000-03-17 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 3/17/2000 at 5:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lloyd Wood) wrote: I believe it's worth changing the default to conform to this behaviour, since it offers search advantages. Generally, you wouldn't search your own archive from e.g. altavista. Does it really offer significant advantages? Per the

meet box-stuffer 0.9

2000-04-10 Thread Nathaniel Irons
A few months ago I wrote to the list about a means to create durable links to arbitrary messages, capable of surviving an archive rebuild or other trauma. The notion generalized into a tool for storing message metadata (specifically subject, author name, author email, Message-ID, and file path)

Re: Empty Anonymous messages

2000-04-11 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 4/11/2000 at 2:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Tilden) wrote: I've started using MHonArc with mailman and so far almost everything is working fine. The single annoying exception is that every time MHonArc scans the mailman archive file it creates an empty 'Anonymous' entry in the MHonArc

Re: Suppressing email address in existing archive...

2000-05-09 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 5/9/2000 at 9:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Beranek) wrote: However, this doesn't work for old messages... Run mhonarc on your old archives with -editidx, and your current resource file. -nat

Re: Execute mhonarc every time I receive a message

2000-05-11 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On 5/11/2000 at 12:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Osa) wrote: I want MhonArc add messages every time I receive a message. Automatically. How do I do it? Did you try the documentation? http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/archives.html#forward -nat

Re: Qn about a interesting but slight mis-use of mhonarc

2002-05-04 Thread Nathaniel Irons
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:12:02PM +0100, Ed Wildgoose wrote: I have a user who would like a webpage produced in the style of web logs such as blogger, etc. Because they have very poor internet connectivity and will be assumed to want easy HTML creation, the obvious way to let them update