Twee Cheerz fur Unka Dan!

Meow kitties,

I hafta write dis cawze Unka Dan is a kinda humble hooman and woodn't
pat hizownself on da bak, so I'll do it for him.

Y'kno a few weeks ago I had menshuned dat he was goink to collect da
ORIENT EGGSPRESS adventure and post it fur efurrykitty to reed. Well,
he haz owtdone hizownself, and deserfs owr hearty appawz fur hiz wurk.

He duzzent kno dat I'ze tellink efurrykitty whut he told me, but I
finks dat he deserfs twee cheerz. Here's whut hez dun in hiz own
wurdz:

"I finally determined a couple of weeks ago that the idea of grabbing
pages from Google Groups and parsing them was not practical. The
basics work well enough, but with the bizarre ways they embed stuff in
their pages it was just not reasonable to be able to accurately detect
and remove all the Google-inserted crap. Looking at the duplicated
messages and bizarre quoted text errors, I could easily spend a couple
months writing special case handlers to account for the various ways
Google has of screwing things up.


Instead I signed up for accounts with Giganews and Supernews. They
both claim close to 4 years retention for text-only groups. I now have
all Usenet messages posted to RPCC since June 21, 2003 saved on my
hard drive. I've got them all loaded into a database, and am about to
finish the tool that will allow me to select messages that belong to
the thread (automatically selecting all messages that are replies to
the original message, as well as allowing me to review all messages
and manually select any that the script misses). It will then be a
simple matter to spit them out to an HTML page.


The following still need to be done:
* Finish the script that will allow review and selection of messages
to include (2 days)
* Review all messages for the appropriate time period (2 or 3 days)
* Write a script to convert special characters to HTML entities (half
a day) and to strip out quoted messages deeper than one level (another
half day)
* Process the selected messages into HTML output (a day)"

Wow, Unka Dan, you iz sumfin' else! Fangu! Fangu! Fangu!

--
Purrs,

Mme. Anaïs

“I love cats because I take pleasure in my home; and little by
little, the cats become its visible soul.�
Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963

2/26/2008 8:39:00 PM

we iz all apawizin kuz we thinkz it meanz we getsa readit, efin none of uses
knowz zatli what alla dati iz, Trudi
Mme. Anaïs ^..^ wrote in message
...
Meow kitties,

I hafta write dis cawze Unka Dan is a kinda humble hooman and woodn't
pat hizownself on da bak, so I'll do it for him.

Y'kno a few weeks ago I had menshuned dat he was goink to collect da
ORIENT EGGSPRESS adventure and post it fur efurrykitty to reed. Well,
he haz owtdone hizownself, and deserfs owr hearty appawz fur hiz wurk.

He duzzent kno dat I'ze tellink efurrykitty whut he told me, but I
finks dat he deserfs twee cheerz. Here's whut hez dun in hiz own
wurdz:

"I finally determined a couple of weeks ago that the idea of grabbing
pages from Google Groups and parsing them was not practical. The
basics work well enough, but with the bizarre ways they embed stuff in
their pages it was just not reasonable to be able to accurately detect
and remove all the Google-inserted crap. Looking at the duplicated
messages and bizarre quoted text errors, I could easily spend a couple
months writing special case handlers to account for the various ways
Google has of screwing things up.


Instead I signed up for accounts with Giganews and Supernews. They
both claim close to 4 years retention for text-only groups. I now have
all Usenet messages posted to RPCC since June 21, 2003 saved on my
hard drive. I've got them all loaded into a database, and am about to
finish the tool that will allow me to select messages that belong to
the thread (automatically selecting all messages that are replies to
the original message, as well as allowing me to review all messages
and manually select any that the script misses). It will then be a
simple matter to spit them out to an HTML page.


The following still need to be done:
* Finish the script that will allow review and selection of messages
to include (2 days)
* Review all messages for the appropriate time period (2 or 3 days)
* Write a script to convert special characters to HTML entities (half
a day) and to strip out quoted messages deeper than one level (another
half day)
* Process the selected messages into HTML output (a day)"

Wow, Unka Dan, you iz sumfin' else! Fangu! Fangu! Fangu!

--
Purrs,

Mme. Anaïs

"I love cats because I take pleasure in my home; and little by
little, the cats become its visible soul."
Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963

2/26/2008 8:39:00 PM

Fangu from diz houze. We kant wait to read diz venture. Da gramby shakez
herown head kauze people iz smart enuf to do dese fings. Fangu one morez
timez. Piglet gathering the snacks for whe they all sit down to read this.
"Mme. Anaïs ^..^" wrote in message
...
Meow kitties,

I hafta write dis cawze Unka Dan is a kinda humble hooman and woodn't
pat hizownself on da bak, so I'll do it for him.

Y'kno a few weeks ago I had menshuned dat he was goink to collect da
ORIENT EGGSPRESS adventure and post it fur efurrykitty to reed. Well,
he haz owtdone hizownself, and deserfs owr hearty appawz fur hiz wurk.

He duzzent kno dat I'ze tellink efurrykitty whut he told me, but I
finks dat he deserfs twee cheerz. Here's whut hez dun in hiz own
wurdz:

"I finally determined a couple of weeks ago that the idea of grabbing
pages from Google Groups and parsing them was not practical. The
basics work well enough, but with the bizarre ways they embed stuff in
their pages it was just not reasonable to be able to accurately detect
and remove all the Google-inserted crap. Looking at the duplicated
messages and bizarre quoted text errors, I could easily spend a couple
months writing special case handlers to account for the various ways
Google has of screwing things up.


Instead I signed up for accounts with Giganews and Supernews. They
both claim close to 4 years retention for text-only groups. I now have
all Usenet messages posted to RPCC since June 21, 2003 saved on my
hard drive. I've got them all loaded into a database, and am about to
finish the tool that will allow me to select messages that belong to
the thread (automatically selecting all messages that are replies to
the original message, as well as allowing me to review all messages
and manually select any that the script misses). It will then be a
simple matter to spit them out to an HTML page.


The following still need to be done:
* Finish the script that will allow review and selection of messages
to include (2 days)
* Review all messages for the appropriate time period (2 or 3 days)
* Write a script to convert special characters to HTML entities (half
a day) and to strip out quoted messages deeper than one level (another
half day)
* Process the selected messages into HTML output (a day)"

Wow, Unka Dan, you iz sumfin' else! Fangu! Fangu! Fangu!

--
Purrs,

Mme. Anaïs

"I love cats because I take pleasure in my home; and little by
little, the cats become its visible soul."
Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963

2/26/2008 8:39:00 PM

Appawz furr Unka Dan!
No e-z tazk!
An uh twee mouse saloot!
X:3QQ~~~~~~~~~~~
X:3QQ~~~~~~~~~~~
X:3QQ~~~~~~~~~~~

Pit2nya, an Meowmee Sylvia tuu

"Granby" wrote in message
...
Fangu from diz houze. We kant wait to read diz venture. Da gramby
shakez herown head kauze people iz smart enuf to do dese fings. Fangu
one morez timez. Piglet gathering the snacks for whe they all sit
down to read this.
"Mme. Anaïs ^..^" wrote in message
...
Meow kitties,

I hafta write dis cawze Unka Dan is a kinda humble hooman and woodn't
pat hizownself on da bak, so I'll do it for him.

Y'kno a few weeks ago I had menshuned dat he was goink to collect da
ORIENT EGGSPRESS adventure and post it fur efurrykitty to reed. Well,
he haz owtdone hizownself, and deserfs owr hearty appawz fur hiz
wurk.

He duzzent kno dat I'ze tellink efurrykitty whut he told me, but I
finks dat he deserfs twee cheerz. Here's whut hez dun in hiz own
wurdz:

"I finally determined a couple of weeks ago that the idea of grabbing
pages from Google Groups and parsing them was not practical. The
basics work well enough, but with the bizarre ways they embed stuff
in
their pages it was just not reasonable to be able to accurately
detect
and remove all the Google-inserted crap. Looking at the duplicated
messages and bizarre quoted text errors, I could easily spend a
couple
months writing special case handlers to account for the various ways
Google has of screwing things up.


Instead I signed up for accounts with Giganews and Supernews. They
both claim close to 4 years retention for text-only groups. I now
have
all Usenet messages posted to RPCC since June 21, 2003 saved on my
hard drive. I've got them all loaded into a database, and am about to
finish the tool that will allow me to select messages that belong to
the thread (automatically selecting all messages that are replies to
the original message, as well as allowing me to review all messages
and manually select any that the script misses). It will then be a
simple matter to spit them out to an HTML page.


The following still need to be done:
* Finish the script that will allow review and selection of messages
to include (2 days)
* Review all messages for the appropriate time period (2 or 3 days)
* Write a script to convert special characters to HTML entities (half
a day) and to strip out quoted messages deeper than one level
(another
half day)
* Process the selected messages into HTML output (a day)"

Wow, Unka Dan, you iz sumfin' else! Fangu! Fangu! Fangu!

--
Purrs,

Mme. Anaïs

"I love cats because I take pleasure in my home; and little by
little, the cats become its visible soul."
Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963

2/26/2008 8:39:00 PM

On Tuesday 26 February 2008 20:44, Mme. Anaïs ^..^ wrote:

Meow kitties,

I hafta write dis cawze Unka Dan is a kinda humble hooman and woodn't
pat hizownself on da bak, so I'll do it for him.

The following still need to be done:
* Finish the script that will allow review and selection of messages
to include (2 days)
* Review all messages for the appropriate time period (2 or 3 days)
* Write a script to convert special characters to HTML entities (half
a day) and to strip out quoted messages deeper than one level (another
half day)
* Process the selected messages into HTML output (a day)"

Wow, Unka Dan, you iz sumfin' else! Fangu! Fangu! Fangu!


Nice scripting Unca Dan. You are a talented hooman.

--
Regards,
Fred
http://www.fredwilliams.ca/thesecretofmoney.html

Me liked what Unkl Fred sayed
Mosey

"Fred Williams"
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 20:44, Mme. Anaïs ^..^ wrote:

Meow kitties,

I hafta write dis cawze Unka Dan is a kinda humble hooman and woodn't
pat hizownself on da bak, so I'll do it for him.

The following still need to be done:
* Finish the script that will allow review and selection of messages
to include (2 days)
* Review all messages for the appropriate time period (2 or 3 days)
* Write a script to convert special characters to HTML entities (half
a day) and to strip out quoted messages deeper than one level (another
half day)
* Process the selected messages into HTML output (a day)"

Wow, Unka Dan, you iz sumfin' else! Fangu! Fangu! Fangu!


Nice scripting Unca Dan. You are a talented hooman.

--
Regards,
Fred
http://www.fredwilliams.ca/thesecretofmoney.html