[FRIAM] Archiving Friam conversations as editable text.

[Owen Densmore]

Ah..could just be http://redfish.com/ is dead. It hangs.

(I tried beaming into the admin part of our mail and it hung.)

Stephen?

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:

> 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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>>
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