Hi bowerbird

As for march digests 2058 and 2059, it seems to me they are
not included twice in the current posting of March digests
(!?)

My policy concerning iterated postings that are identical
-- except maybe for correction of some gaffe -- is to post
the last with the header tags for all the postings.
It's a simple matter of noise abatement -- without loss of 
real content.

For example what you call 

    "30893/30905 by matthew beedle"

appears labelled:

Content: futurebasic_30893.ezm
Content: futurebasic_30905.ezm

and the content is the corrected posting 30905.

Your software can surely learn to handle this!

Mat's case is the most difficult since the corrected version
appeared in the following digest.  I hope that's not
upsetting to you.

	I stand corrected in exactly *one* instance:
What you call 

    "30358/30359 by peter boyle"

should by my declared policy have been labelled:

Content: futurebasic_30358.ezm
Content: futurebasic_30359.ezm

but the 30358 mention was accidentally omitted.
So I'll post a corrected version of "FBD_2002-03"
along with "FBD_2002-05" at the end of the month.

Any other digest corrections while we're at it?

Cheers,

Laurent S.

PS.  Obviously I wouldn't maintain the digests if I didn't
use them myself.  Personally I use a grep search over all
the digests to locate relevant information.  I use QED/M for
that; any equally powerful tools to suggest? (Alpha,
BBEdit...?)  The one feature i miss is the ability to go off
on a tangent and then return to an earlier search pattern
without having to restart at square one. Suggestions?

PPS.  I have never done a cumulative index, but with your
orientation bb, that might be the way to go.  Good luck.

PPPS. Have just run across "Privacy & Encryption" 
a text nicely formatted using B.Raoult's Print2PICT extension
"PostCard" of 1992. I guess that is one of the few 
autonomous readers that are vanishingly small and
not limited to 32Ko (?)  Cannot extract text but 
may be I could learn...