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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

204.0. "Amiga Usenet Conference?" by BACH::TENNY (Dave Tenny) Fri Dec 05 1986 16:58

Today I used the USENOTES facility to view my USENET comp.sys.amiga mail.
This is terrific! (Many thanks to the author of USENOTES.B32)

Question:

 why don't we (read someone) set up a regular conference for the Amiga
 group to peruse.

Of course, this requires lots of disk space.  So, the note probably needs
to be purged of most of the traffic regularly.  Maybe it isn't feasible,
I've never moderated a conference, and the first one I created was
for USENOTES today.   

If anyone thinks this is a good idea and will host it, terrific.
Meanwhile, feel free to browse the conference I started today;
with the knowledge that it will be deleted and re-created in the near future.

Location:  BACH::LISPW$:[TENNY.USENET]COMP_SYS_AMIGA.NOTE

-Dave Tenny

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
204.1	?	HAZEL::MELLITZ		`Sun Dec 07 1986 21:29`	3
	What is USENOTES?
204.2	USENOTES is...	BIZET::TENNY	Dave Tenny	`Mon Dec 08 1986 10:31`	20
	USENOTES takes the USENET mailing in your mail directory from ROLL::USENET (if you subscribe to USENET) and extracts all the articles into a NOTES conference. It even does a pretty good job adding replies to a topic by looking at subject fields etc... I found this utility on either: METOO::TOOLS$LIBRARY:SW_TOOLS_CATALOG METOO::TOOLSHED notes conferences (sorry, don't remember which) The files I use are also in my directories: BACH::LISPW$:[TENNY.DCL]USENET-NOTES.COM ! invoke this BACH::LISPW$:[TENNY.USENET]USENOTES.EXE One of the things you need to run this is a DEFINE for USE$NET. Dave
204.3	Conference deleted/re-created	BIZET::TENNY	Dave Tenny	`Mon Jan 05 1987 14:26`	12
	To those who have been accessing the comp.sys.amiga notes file mentioned in .0; note that I have erased it and recreated it to reclaim disk space. Public access was granted only to demonstrate the usefulness of USENOTES and try to get someone to host a USENET AMIGA conference. Sorry if anyone misses it, but I can't spare the space. Is is public again, and will fill up quickly; but beware! Dave Tenny DTN 225 5089 BACH::TENNY
204.4	?	HAZEL::MELLITZ		`Fri Jan 16 1987 08:28`	9
	RE: .2 Did you install usenotes.exe with a ".CLD". I looked at usenet-notes.com. It does a "$ usenotes something.note something.txt". ... Rich
204.5	No .CLD, used foreign command facility.	BIZET::TENNY	Dave Tenny	`Fri Jan 16 1987 10:05`	11
	I used the foreign command facility. This means there is a symbol: usenotes == "$lispw$:[tenny.usenet]usenotes.exe" Note that the preceding '$' is the key (if you aren't familiar with this major VMS gross hack). Dave
204.6	Verb or not to verb...	HAZEL::MELLITZ		`Fri Jan 16 1987 13:09`	1
	I'm familiar... Thanx
204.7	Need a USENOTES-EXPIRE program	SQM::JMSYNGE		`Wed Jan 28 1987 17:15`	14
	I've being using USENOTES to create a notes file for me. The problem is that the moderator commands in NOTES don't seem to allow me the flexiblity I want when it comes to deleting old topics. It would be nice to have a program which deletes topics after they have become dormant for a long enough period. On unix machines there is a program called expire which does this task for usenet news. Any ideas as to where I can get a copy of the source to usenotes and some info on how to manipulate a notes file from a program? Thanks, james.