Re: [Paddlewise] Saving mail, was BOMFOG

Sandykayak wrote:
>  Is there any way to just print a highlighted portion?  You waste so
much
>ink (and these cartridges are expensive) printing the headers, footers, and
>entire clips of previous messages on top of other previous messages.
>
and then
Allan Singleton wrote:
"Highlight the part that you want, go to the Edit menu and click Copy. Then
open your word processing program, go to the Edit menu and click Paste. Then
print it; or keep both programs open, Copy and Paste in turn from as many
messages as you like into the one document, then print it at the end of the
session."

	Alternatively, it may help save a tree and avoid storing and dealing with
all that paperwork to use a computer-based approach.  Some e-mail programs
such as Eudora Mail allow you to create software folders and click and drag
messages into them with the mouse.  Then the messages are stored on your
computer's hard drive.  With folders for Paddlewise and sub-folders for
topics you can construct a filing system that's fairly easy to scan through
on screen, click to open a saved message, and see what's been posted
before.  I guess that will also make things easier for the FBI or whoever
is loony enough and has excess time on their hands to investigate us!

	If your e-mail program doesn't have similar features you can follow
Allan's procedure but paste into a new e-mail message that you address and
send to yourself.  Then you receive only the part you want to save or
print.  And you can change the subject however works for you.  No headers,
footers, long repeats, etc to deal with.  This is a little more awkward,
but it also works if you receive Paddlewise in digest form.  You can just
highlight and copy the messages or partial messages you want.

	There's other free software to deal with digest mail, and if I ever get it
to work and anyone is interested, I'll post more info about that.  Maybe
someone else on the list has already mastered that and can tell us?

	By the way, Jackie hasn't reminded us recently, but we could all help
reduce unnecessary volume by using the highlight and Cut function when we
are replying to messages.  There's often no need to retain the full text of
a previous message in your reply.  Also works on the accumulation of
headers and footers.

	Thanks, happy paddling to all,
		John
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