Message glitch

[Paul M. Kippes]

At 08:29 PM 1/17/2001 +0000, Neil wrote:
>Jeralyn said (in the Moderators group) :
>
> > Maybe we should start archiving the messages again.  How *did* we do that,
>btw?
>
>I was going to suggest the same thing.
>
>Paul Kippes created the Archives eGroup and I believe he wrote a clever
>program to convert all the messages.  Maybe he would know how to archive 50%
>of the present club's messages into yet another eGroups club.
>Theoretically, it should be an easier task, although I wouldn't have the
>foggiest idea how to do it <g>
>
>I'll copy this to the FAQ group, as Paul is there (and I'm not sure he's
>joined this group).
>
>Paul - is this possible?

I've been wondering what that invite was I received so long ago.  I've 
replied so will be able to follow the HPfGU-Mod discussions.

This will actually be a bit more difficult since the HP4GU family of 
eGroups have that pesky login requirement.  BTW, I am all for this.  (Our 
Yahoo! group allowed world access.)  My uncle called me tonight informing 
all the places on the Internet he found my name.  I hate having all my 
miss-typed and silly messages forever etched on corporate hard drives.

But archiving HPforGrownups has been something I've been meaning to get 
finished--I started work on this back in November.  Once that is done, I 
don't see any problem with placing message archives in the current archive 
group.  Of course backing up to the same server doesn't give much 
redundancy--but at least I'll maintain a copy if no one else will.

I will be able to use much of the conversion techniques, but until I work 
out the cookie/login thing it will be only a faint vision.

Paul