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275639 Richard Wilson <yorkshireman@y...> 2022‑05‑24 Re: A bit of help searching the archive...
Last century, we had a galoot who was keeping all messages, on the basis that
there was so much valuable information locked in them

i’ve been brain bashing on and off since your comment, but danged if i can put a
name to him (that happens a lot to me these days)


Anyone else remember?  was a prolific poster back in the nineties.  


Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman Galoot



> On 21 May 2022, at 00:38, Steve B. in Thunder Bay, Ontario 
wrote:
> 
> Hi Richard
> 
> I had the same problem finding old postings that were of interest to me, and
found my solution in about 2004. And I applied it to Oldtools and many other
newsgroups that I was following.
> 
> No it won't immediately help newcomers to the group (that will have to rely on
searches of prior material in the manner as already described).
> 
> In 2004 I started saving interesting messages that I wanted to keep in text
files by subject matter. Text files have the advantage of being small in memory
requirements as opposed to bloated files from word processors. I use NoteTab
Free from Fookes Software for this record keeping as well as to codeHTML for
websites.
> 
> https://www.fookes.com
> 
> NoteTab has the added advantage of also being able to search over multiple
text files -- if I wasn't sure which exact files might contain a particular
prior discussion.
> 
> So this solution won't help new record keepers immediately, but will prove
absolutely invaluable over the future years.
> 
> Steve B. in Thunder Bay, Ontario
> 
> --- where winter is ending about two months late and I haven't yet removed the
big snowblower from my tractor.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



-- 
Yorkshireman Galoot
in the most northerly county, farther north even than Yorkshire
IT #300

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