[FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

Owen Densmore owen at backspaces.net
Mon Jun 4 12:02:48 EDT 2018


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On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 8:32 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Dear Friammers,
>
>
>
> So, I am now safely installed in the MIB, and now I am trying to fulfill
> my promise to try to turn your excellent work concerning “What Pragmatism
> Is” into an editable text.  I realize this is a project that only a mother
> could love, but humor me a little bit.
>
>
>
> So, the first method I tried, via Outlook, failed.  Outlook apparently
> keeps its email messages disaggregated in something like a vast CSV file.
> When you ask for a single message, it re-aggregates the fields of the
> message and presents it to you.  If you try to export a bunch of messages,
> it exports them as a CSV file or as a bunch of icons.  There is no way that
> I can see to open all the messages  of a thread into a single Word File for
> editing.  There is no way to write macros for Outlook.  So, that’s the end
> of the Outlook line, for me, I think.
>
>
>
> My next thought was to work with the FRIAM archive.  I thought perhaps I
> could import an entire thread from the  archive, and since, as I remember,
> the archive is organized chronologically, I might have my rough editable
> file that way.  I could then write a macro to delete unnecessary repetitive
> stuff, and would be done.
>
>
>
> *However, I could not, following instructions on the FRIAM page, get into
> the FRIAM archive** at all*.  If anybody has used it recently, could you
> get in touch?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
>
>
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