Hi Sandy et al, This thought just occurred to me: I use Netscape Mail. All of the messages in a particular folder are saved as a single file. I was able to open this file in Microsoft Word, and do a Find on whatever keyword I was looking to find the relevant posts on. For instance, I did a Find on "3x5 cards" in that file to look up your original post to do this (very belated!) response. Of course, this file, after less than 6 months, is 2900 pages long, but at least it's not printed on paper!!! It's not quite the same as having an index card with relevant info on somebody, but if you're trying to rack your mind remembering a specific post, it's a pretty easy way to look it up. Shawn Sandykayak wrote: >BTW, has anyone devised an interesting way of keeping track of who is who on >this list? I started by using 3x5 cards and writing bits of info about the >writer as it was posted, but that got a bit unwieldy. I have tons of pages >printed and am trying to think of how to file them -- Shawn W. Baker 0 46°53'N © 1999 ____©/______ 114°06'W ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ baker_at_montana.com 0 http://www.missoulaconcrete/shawn/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Heh... I'm still using Navigator 3.01, so I don't have the most up-to-date search capabilities. I just checked, and I can find a message header in a folder, or a specific word or phrase in a single message, but I couldn't search through the entire folder for keywords. (I also get P'wise in Digest form, so searching for headers would be tough) So, if you have more advanced mail software than I do, it would be no problemo!! :) Shawn Karen Hancock wrote: > I'm using Outllok Express for mail. Without opening the mail folder as a > file in another application, I can do a similar search just by using the > Edit function... Find... Message.... It's possible to search on some pretty > specific parameters. If I recall Netscape Mail, it probably has similar > search capabilities. No need to perform the extra step opening in MS Word. > Karen > -- Shawn W. Baker 0 46°53'N © 1999 ____©/______ 114°06'W ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ baker_at_montana.com 0 http://www.missoulaconcrete/shawn/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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