[FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

[Owen Densmore]

Damn! And the GMane site is also dead:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:

> Hmm.. You're right: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/
>
> Not Found
> The requested URL /pipermail/friam_redfish.com/index.html was not found
> on this server.
>
> Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an
> ErrorDocument to handle the request.
>
> 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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