I remember that poll and I voted in it!
When I did a sort on the text buffer to extract the names...
This statement intrigued me. I do okay, but am not a super techie. How is that done? I do a lot of keystrokes to assemble my Make America Great Again pinglist, and am always looking for ways to do it faster. Tips?
Not a biggie — I copy and paste each 20-message page of the topic (this is when I’m ambitious of course) into a Tex-Edit file (Mac; MS Word also has a sort), then sort it by paragraph, resulting in all the lines beginning with message numbers grouped together, and occasionally some detritus. It’s a snap to edit out everything but the numbered lines, then two wildcard search and replace yields just the FReeper names. If I feel like it, I can then sort those alpha, but I’m not that OCD. ;’)