Re: My current practise in using Conlang e-mails

From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: My current practise in using Conlang e-mails


> From:    <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
> > Clint Jackson BAKER <litrex2@...> wrote:
> > > I just deleted a zillion conlang e-mails.  Originally I had tried to
> > > delete occasionally with the hope of getting to the ones I thought
> > > useful.  But this hopelessly backfired when I saw that my account was
> > > at 125% of its limit.
> >
> > The only way of dealing with the volume (short of leaving the list)
> > is going NOMAIL.
>
> I'm not so sure of that.  I used to regularly leave the list every
> time a new school term began.  But I've found of late that, rather
> than leaving or going NOMAIL, it's helpful to receive the emails in
> digest form.  You still gets lots of extraneous material, but I find
> it much easier to skip through all that by skimming in one sitting
> than receiving individual emails separately.  At the very least,
> this method doesn't clog up one's emailbox anywhere near as fast.
I tried the digest option, too, but unfortunately, the mails are not sorted
after topics, like The List itself IIRC. That's why I still receive dozens
of dozens of mails each day (yesterday I deleted nearly all mails!). Sure,
for saving the mails as HTML files, it's better to read The List online and
not download the mails with your mail program, but then at least, I'd prefer
to extract the emails I already received out of Outlook Express (6.0).

*OT:* But unfortunately OE has no option to export to TXT or HTML, and
Mozilla from which you can import mails can do save messages as TXT/HTML
files, but you've got to do everything by hand, it'd be surely more
comfortable to do the extraction automatically ... So if someone knows a
small proggy that can do this task automatically ... please for Windows! The
Linux distribution I've got is a "Linux-life-from-CD"-distribution (Knoppix,
knopper.net), and many required files (Qt3, Python headers, other .so's...)
are not at the places the ./configure expects them or whyever cannot be
recognized even if I do ./configure --with-qt-foobars /usr/local/foo, I
always fail at compiling something (or when it's compiled, the installation
fails because something like "target 'foo': nothing to do ... leaving
directory ... exit"). I really should go buying SuSE or Mandrake or
something newbie-friendly like that (if it only wouldn't be so expensive,
but still less expensive than Windows!) => OT: HOW TO GET EMAILS CONVERTED
TO HTML FILES OUT OF OUTLOOK EXPRESS 6.0 AUTOMATICALLY?