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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 19:58

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
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204.1?HAZEL::MELLITZMon Dec 08 1986 00:293
    What is  USENOTES?
    
    
204.2USENOTES is...BIZET::TENNYDave TennyMon Dec 08 1986 13:3120
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
204.3Conference deleted/re-createdBIZET::TENNYDave TennyMon Jan 05 1987 17:2612
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::MELLITZFri Jan 16 1987 11:289
    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
    
   
204.5No .CLD, used foreign command facility.BIZET::TENNYDave TennyFri Jan 16 1987 13:0511
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
204.6Verb or not to verb...HAZEL::MELLITZFri Jan 16 1987 16:091
    I'm familiar... Thanx
204.7Need a USENOTES-EXPIRE programSQM::JMSYNGEWed Jan 28 1987 20:1514
    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.