To: Albion Wilde
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. ;’)
641 posted on
01/05/2016 11:39:54 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
I copy and paste each 20-message page of the topic... into a Tex-Edit file..., then sort it by paragraph, resulting in all the lines beginning with message numbers grouped together.... 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. ;')Oh, thanks! I see how you approach it. As for the alphabetical sorting, I guess I am that OCD! It does make managing a big ping list easier, and to avoid double-pinging people.
644 posted on
01/06/2016 1:05:50 PM PST by
Albion Wilde
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