Paul's Magical Spreadsheets

[Dicentra spectabilis]

--- In HP4GU-FAQ at yahoogroups.com, "Heidi Tandy" <heidit at n...> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:49AM -0500, Cindy C. wrote:
> > Laura's post on OTC about de-lurks got me thinking that we might want
> > to make Paul's two spreadsheets available to members.  


Heidi:
> Only that people are able to always delete posts they've made from the 
> yahoogroup, whereas we wouldn't be able to delete that info/content
from 
> what Paul's created.

I don't think Cindy is referring to the archived text files but to the
Excel spreadsheets in Files.  The spreadsheets give the userID,
e-mail, date, and subject line, but the posts themselves are not
contained therein.  The spreadsheets are good for finding all the
posts written by a particular person or counting how many posts on a
given day.

So if someone tries to find a delurk that has been deleted, they'll
input the message number on the main list and come up with bupkis.

I think that kind of information is safe in public hands.

--Dicey, who thinks the two spreadsheets should be combined