On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 02:19 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Lee is tied up with school and holiday stuff and has not had much > chance to work on the Digest formatting with me lately. Please ignore > the odd stuff that you see in the digest, we should have it running > smoothly soon. (he has to install the house-keeping programs I write, > but he has been very tied up, and I prefer not to have that kind of > server access on someone else's machine).
Well, I came up for air, and installed Jerry's script today. There are still a few bugs to be worked out, but the digests should be a lot cleaner now. Jerry has put in a lot of work on this, and we should all give him a big round of applause. <clap><clap> <clap><clap> <clap><clap> <clap><clap> <clap><clap> <clap><clap> <clap><clap> The digest isn't perfect, but it's coming along. There are many digests out there, so we are amazed to find no good general solutions to handle the myriad possibilities for mail formatting. We have scoured the Web looking for good solutions in order to avoid reinventing the wheel. In the end, we decided we had to invent the wheel, and what the digest readers are seeing is the birth of a general parsing program. Jerry decided to name it MailMangler. I have also raised the threshold for triggering the digest. I originally had it set at either 5:15 PM or 40K characters -- whichever came first. The unusually heavy traffic today caused several digests to be generated. I've reset it at 80,000 characters, to avoid having three digests generated per day again, unless there's an enormous amount of traffic. -- Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132 The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
