On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:39:34 -0800, "Pi2nya AKA Sweetee"
wrote:




"Gandalf" wrote in message
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:41:29 GMT, (Gandalf) wrote:

I'm a long time lurker here.

Back in 2003, I started saving posts, because I just didn't have time
to
read them; I'm not very good at reading meow chat.

So now, many years later, I have over 32,000 saved posts. Once I
started
saving a thread, I saved all of it, until there were no posts, to the
best of my knowledge.

I would like to pass them along to somebody, long and deeply involved
with RPCC, who can keep them, and perhaps pass them along to others.

I would have to send them on a USB jump drive; it would only work with
a
PC.

The program can be run right off the USB jump drive, or be copied to a
hard drive.

I have used an old newsgroup reader program called Agent Forte; I got
it
10 years ago, and it was old then.

But it keeps the posts in 'thread order', by date, with the author's
name, etc. I has been a very good program for reading newsgroups.

Recently, I have lost the entire saved contents of two other
newsgroups,
including a huge number I had saved on rec.pets.cats.health+behav.

I am afraid the program may be deteriorating, and I do not want to
lose
all the posts I saved on RPCC, as well, before I can pass them along.

And, once saved on another hard drive, they could be passed to other
people, using a jump drive.

Discuss this on the group, and pick one person you all feel would a
good
person to send this irreplaceable history of this wonderful news
group.

My E-mail address is good, but I don't want to receive E-mails from
individuals wanting the data; I want the person chosen by consensus in
this open forum.

If things should get ugly, and I certainly hope that doesn't happen, I
will withdraw my offer; permanently and irrevocably. I can, and I
WILL.

So no Ego Trips, please. Lets keep this discussion positive.

Thank you.

Gandalf




I would prefer to keep it within the USA.

I have a USB jump drive

I think I was reading RPCC for awhile before I started saving the
posts,
but I don't know for how long. Perhaps as long as a year or two. I
almost never posted.

The first thread I saved is titled 'Alone on Easter Island', and was a
continuation of another thread I sadly did not save. It is dated April
20, 2003, and has 190 posts in the thread.

Sadly, at first I only saved threads that I didn't have time to read;
later, and I don't know when, I just decided to save the threads that
were interesting to me. Doubtless, for as many posts as I saved, (and
it's more like 35,000) there may be an equal number that I didn't
save.

But, at least I have the ones I did save in an easy to read format.

I have to get a bigger USB drive: my 'archive', and the software that
contains it, is too big for my 128meg jump drive.

I could have bought one pretty cheap on Black Friday, but I just
didn't
think of it

It sounds like the consensus is that it should go to Dan M., and I
agree.

I apologize if I offended anyone with my comments about 'ego trip',
but
I have seen things get really ugly when one person has something, and
several, or many, people, think THEY should get it. I just didn't want
to get caught in the middle

Even on RPCA, the group I do read and post on a fair amount, I have
seen
a LOT of really nasty sniping at people, and that is what I was
thinking
of.

I have not seen that here, and I'm sorry for my unnecessarily harsh
comments and 'conditions'.

If I had several 'extra' USB jump drives, I would not mind sending
multiple copies, but I don't.

And I want to get this sent before the holiday mail rush too; I would
be
very, very upset if it got lost in the mail, and I lost the saved
posts
on my computer, too.

I have copied this program with all the saved posts, from computer to
computer, and through several upgrades, and now I am having trouble
with
it. I should have acted earlier, but there never is enough time, is
there?

This is a great group, and I am sorry I have not contributed to it
over
the years I have been reading it.

But, at least I saved part of it, and now I can pass it on to someone
who is far, far more knowledgable about computers than I am; perhaps
he
can devise an easy way to make it available to more people, or even to
everyone.

Gandalf ---just a lurker here.

Sounds great!
BTW, one way to get rid of the karets, at least with windoz, but perhaps
with any word processing program, is, after arranged in cronological
order, to go too Edit-- Replace--All-- and put one in the top
window, nothing in the bottom, and bonk, all s are removed. Sure
makes for cleaning up easier. Probly not the only way, but it's what I
use when I want to clean up a thread.

HTH
Sylvia M.

Unfortunately, the carats are inserted by the Usenet News Reader
software I'm using: an old version of Agent Forte.

Copying a post to a Windows word processing program, (copy paste, etc)
might make that possible. I've never tried.

Gandalf