plamar@echelon.ca wrote:

Okay .. here is the poop:.

The first message was April 1998.  Since then there have been 6,942
messages.  Out of interest I plotted the message activity versus month
with Excell.  Attached is the plot (it must be that engineering blood).

Approximately 10% of the messages contain embedded graphics or
pictures.  Currently, there is over 110 MB of data so a CD is the only
practical way to distribute the thing.

I use Netscape Communicator 4.51 for Windoze 95 and the files (organized
by month) are in that format.  In order to "read" and or "search" the
messages you have to know how to use Windoz Exploder (the file manager)
to copy the month you are interested from the CD into the following
directory on your hard drive:

     C:\Programs\Netscape\Users\[USERNAME]\Mail\Inbox.sbd
     NOTE: the [USERNAME] will be unique to the user

Additionally, you have to know how to use Windoz Exploder to change the
attributes of the file from read only to modifiable. i.e. I found out
that Netscape will not allow you to open a sub-folder in the mailbox
that is not modifiable.  This is not a bug, it is done for a very good
reason I suspect.  It is also why there is no way for Netscape to read
the files directly from the CD.

You can then run the Netscape Messenger and the month will appear as a
sub-folder of the Inbox.  Select the sub-folder and you will see all the
messages just like you received them.  Once you copy all the months you
are missing from the CD to the hard disk you can use the Netscape "move"
command to combine them into one sub-folder or whatever.

Jr.

 
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