Re: Archives & Folders

From: Dr I. D. Goodyer (goodyer@well.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:55:22 +0000 (GMT)

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Karl R. Dalley wrote:

> Two questions -
>
> 1) I've got a bunch of messages in folders. Recently I've been
> thinking that they would be better managed in a newsgroup or a
> pseudo-newsgroup like the mail filters. Is there any way to
> convert them?
>
> 2) I recently received the archives for one of the mailing lists
> to which I subscribe. It contains about 100 emails, but they are
> all concatenated into one mail. Is there any way to break up this
> email into its component parts?
>
> Thanks.
>

Rick Curry has written a program that will do the first I think for you.
It is called Yarn2Soup and converts yarn folders to souper format. Once
in soup format of course you can reimport and filter into a pseudo
newsgroup. He also wrote an adaptation of that program for me that does
no. 2. Basically it will create a soup file from your 100 emails.
Rick subscribes to this list and I don't have his email address with me
at the moment but I am sure that he would love to give you his programs.
I can't recommend them highly enough. Rick .... ;)

Ian