Re: Spring cleaning on bbdb file

2001-05-05 Thread Nix
On 04 May 2001, Colin Rafferty said: > On the other hand, I remember someone posting a module that had a > 'last-seen field, that only got filled in if it popped up because of > VM or Gnus. This avoids the Heisenberg problem. Yep (but it's called `last-accessed'). I've at *last* got around to g

Re: Spring cleaning on bbdb file

2001-05-05 Thread Hans de Graaff
On 04 May 2001, Colin Rafferty wrote: > Jack Twilley writes: >> It'd also be nice to say "display any entries that haven't come up >> in the past two years". With all that done, my database would be >> trim and neat and probably a whole lot speedier. > > This is hard. Namely, what do you mean

Re: Spring cleaning on bbdb file

2001-05-04 Thread Colin Rafferty
Jack Twilley writes: > My bbdb has gotten unwieldy and ugly-looking, so I'd like to clean > it. > The most frustrating bit of ugliness involves the "newsgroups" field > in my database. My goal is to have a return-delimited sorted unique > list of newsgroups for each poster in my database, but t

Spring cleaning on bbdb file

2001-05-04 Thread Jack Twilley
My bbdb has gotten unwieldy and ugly-looking, so I'd like to clean it. The most frustrating bit of ugliness involves the "newsgroups" field in my database. My goal is to have a return-delimited sorted unique list of newsgroups for each poster in my database, but the real data looks ugly. I wrot