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Re: Archives

Geoff,

> Long time ago a message was posted concerning the d/loading of the archives
> into Net Nav which would then strip all the 'extra stuff' out (this is all
> from memory so translation maybe necessary ;)

I have done this and don't see the need to 'strip' the header info from
the messages.  An entire month archive put into the mail directory for
Netscape (and I assume any decent mail reader) will work just as if you
had downloaded all the individual messages into a folder within
Netscape.  This makes it nice for sorting by Sender, Subject or Date as
well as searching message bodies.  As much as I like the online search
engine, I find this to be MUCH faster for me, and it allows me to keep
everything in the single application that I use the most.  Also handy
for reading the archives while on an airplane...

There are a couple of edits that are usually required with each archive,
since the flag for the reader to format message is a From string at the
beginning of a line.  This is easy to spot and fix once you realize what
is happening.

Later dates.
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