Subj : Re: No More Long Posts
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Finnigann
Date : Mon Jul 18 2005 01:45 am

-=> Daryl Stout wrote to FINNIGANN <=-

 DS>   First off, I apologize for the long reply.

 F>No one said that. it's the long wouting that was mentioned. It wasn't needed
 >to quote the entire thing for an atta boy at the end.

 DS>   That's the impression I got ("are you going to post ~600 line
 DS> messages again?"). I agree that quoting the entire deal just for
 DS> a one line reply is not good BBS etiquette.

 F>Usually a small excerpt and the link will be all that is needed. Unless you
 >want to comment on things in that article.

 DS>   That's why I decided to mention the links that I did...and
 DS> which are again noted later in this message.

 DS>   The reason for the one long post is that I usually have to edit
 DS> the textfiles of the Amateur Radio Newsline, The ARRL Contesters
 DS> Rate Sheet, and The ARRL Letter, because the length of the lines
 DS> are too wide for BBS message posting. This means going through
 DS> the entire messages, which I agree can be quite lengthy, with all
 DS> the articles. It took me nearly 15 minutes just to reformat this
 DS> past weeks Newsline...then, I got jumped on for the long post in
 DS> this echo...and that has happened before in other ham radio
 DS> related echoes as well.

 DS>   As the daily newspaper or weekly magazine doesn't have just one
 DS> story...neither does The ARRL Letter, The ARRL Contesters Rate
 DS> Sheet, or The Amateur Radio Newsline.

 DS>   Otherwise, I would need to:

 DS> 1) Go through the entire message first
 DS> 2) See how many stories there are
 DS> 3) Edit the entire deal for line length
 DS> 4) Make x number of copies per story (15 stories means 15
 DS> separate msgs) 5) Mnually edit these
 DS> 6) Set up and edit the batchfile with SMBUTIL to post x number of
 DS> messages.

I have used Q-Edit in the past. It's a DOS based editor. It can reformat
paragraphs with just a couple of key strokes to whatever line length you need.

http://www.umich.edu/~archive/msdos/editors/qedit/

qedit215.zip            25-Sep-1991 10:13   132k  
qedit300.zip            07-May-1994 23:30   203k  <--
qedit3c.zip             07-May-1994 23:30   202k  <--
qmac215.zip             25-Sep-1991 10:13    40k  <--
qng21.zip               19-Nov-1990 22:23 



 DS>   But, then I risk them being deleted for duplicate
 DS> subjects...and that for all the long bulletins. It seems to be
 DS> more trouble than it is worth, with possibly all the work for
 DS> nothing.

 DS>   Also, I only have a certain length for the subject line in the
 DS> batch file with SMBUTIL. And again, the duplicate message deal
 DS> either on here or at systems down the line (I've had that happen
 DS> NUMEROUS times before) would zap one or more of the messages,
 DS> then one reading it wouldn't get the entire message.

Perhaps others can add their experiences here...


 F>Changing the subject line should keep that from happening such as

 F>Part 1

 DS>   Tried that...same result. :(

 DS>   Under my old BBS software, GT Power, the duplicate message deal
 DS> counted the size of the message, and NOT the subject line. Even
 DS> when I was running GT...which did not zap stuff as
 DS> duplicates...trying to gate stuff over into FIDO or other areas
 DS> had the same result...duplicate messages being deleted, so I
 DS> finally gave up.


I use a QWK mail reader/writer Multimail/win32

MultiMail home page:

 http://multimail.sourceforge.net/

I'm pretty sure I read that it can break long messages up. But I haven't tried
it for sure.



Perhaps DM or others have a script that can handle some of this...


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