Yar, lads, here's what is needed.

TEXT EDITING.

If these are done right, they're real easy to auto-html and auto-index for a
master page of links to each article.

You don't need to do any of that, you just have to make these more readable.

SUPER-IMPORTANT: these files are all PLAIN TEXT (or ".txt") files and they
MUST STAY THAT WAY. If you use Word or whatnot, and it normally auto-saves
things as formatted ".doc", whether or not it's CALLED that and whether or not
any formatting has actually been done... it MUST be saved as a "text-only", most
bottom-line basic text format. ASCII essentially. No italics, NO SMART or CURLY
QUOTES. The quotes are "dumb" plain quote marks and they should remain that
way. I mention this because lots of text progs are default set for fancier
treatment. (In WORD on a Mac it's SAVE AS: TEXT ONLY (as opposed to save as "Normal.")

CUTTING THE REPRINTS
The biggest chore is cutting out the reprinted text in follow-up posts. You
know how some people reprint excessively, others are selective, others not at
all. For instance, say, Huey posts some rant. Idiot #1 follows up by reprinting
THE ENTIRE THING followed by one clever little one line retort. Well, in a case
like that, you'd chop ALL of the reprint in Idiot #1's post, so that on Subsite the
reader doesn't have to scroll through Huey's rant again.

But then Semi-Idiot #2 comes along and posts funny replies to EACH
PARAGRAPH of Huey's post. In this case, it's a judgement call. You wouldn't cut
all of the reprinted text because then the specific come-backs for each
paragraph won't make sense. So you'd have to leave that one mostly alone.
EXCEPT, like I often do, you might find ways to slice out MOST of the reprinted
Huey-pg.

PARAGRAPH BREAKS MUST BE TWO-BREAK SEPARATIONS like I'm doing here.

Starting at the top of every file:

1. MAKE SURE SUBJECT TITLE IS THE FIRST LINE.... WITHOUT the word "Subject:"
SOMETIMES you would also cut a "Re:", for instance when I picked up a thread
AFTER the first post.

(That first line will be the title that my HTML program uses to alphabetize the
automatic INDEX it makes. Also it will automatically be put in headline font.)

2. HEADERS OF ALL POSTS in each thread/file:

After the first "Title" headers at the top, we don't need "Subject: Re:[title]" so
cut that, and the "Newsgroups:" line, the "Message ID: line," and the "Date:"
line. Thus subsequent posts start with just the "From:" line

However, keep FROM, DATE (minus clock time) and NEWSGROUP on the very FIRST one
(but not message ID)

3. FOOTERS of posts:

Some have great sigs, but we don't need to see the same great sig over and over
again. So, leave funny sigs there for each poster in a thread, UNTIL that
person's second and subsequent appearances, then chop their sigs.

UNLESS it's one of those ever-changing bot sigs. Like Joe Cosby and Huey often
have varying sig quotes which are really good. I often keep those. Again,
judgement call.

And keep the -------- LINES between the posts. If a line isn't there, copy one to
the spot. They really help separate the posts.

And that's about it. Mainly it's the removal of cluttered headers and senseless
stretches of reprints.

Now and then you might encounter a post which makes you wonder why I
saved it, it's so lame or so "nothing." Go ahead and cut 'em. When I save this
stuff I try to keep only the good parts of the threads but often I'm in a tearing
hurry and grab more than I would want kept. Likewise, you'll see that I have
not kept posts from uber-assholes, repeat creeps, certain botards and fuck-
wads. I hope this REALLY pisses them off.

Also if you happen upon something that would obviously be embarrassing to somebody -- like if I somehow accidentally left in odd parts of private email or IRC stuff from somebody, obviously not meant for publication -- chop that too.

Sometimes you'll encounter something saved from my email and not the
newsgroup. This will have a NUTTY header... you'll just have to revise that to
roughly match our "format". But these won't have follow-ups.

When you've done a folder, compress it into a .zip or .sit (or anything, really)
and email it back to me as an attachment.

Here is an example. A thread with a couple of follow-ups to the first main post.

First, the "BEFORE" example -- how my saved files look.

Subject: SubGenius on Kevin Neelon's Conspiracy show 2nite on TNN
From: parsee@whale-mail.com (King St. Edwin)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sun, Feb 17, 2002 10:31 PM
Message-ID: <8182bedc.0202171931.679603f1@posting.google.com>

The topic was secret societies and the SubGenius dude was saying that
they scoff at people who send in the ordination fees.
I've been duped - twice!
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Subject: Re: SubGenius on Kevin Neelon's Conspiracy show 2nite on TNN
From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Feb 18, 2002 4:14 AM
Message-ID: <3c70c5f4.107183768@News.CIS.DFN.DE>

parsee@whale-mail.com (King St. Edwin) hunched over a computer, typing
feverishly;
thunder crashed, parsee@whale-mail.com (King St. Edwin) laughed madly,
then wrote:

>The topic was secret societies and the SubGenius dude was saying that
>they scoff at people who send in the ordination fees.
>I've been duped - twice!

YOu've got it bac kwards.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com

>does this mean that if there was no wine in france (and no consommers
>of) the graet revolution could have be done since a long time ?

No, if there were no wine in france you'd be belgium.

Sig by Kookie Jar 5.98d http://go.to/generalfrenetics/
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Subject: Re: SubGenius on Kevin Neelon's Conspiracy show 2nite on TNN
From: Legume <none@yerbiz.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Feb 18, 2002 7:08 AM
Message-ID: <Xns91B948EF5EF5CCortezLegume18465086@24.12.106.199>

King St. Edwin wrote:

> The topic was secret societies and the SubGenius dude was saying that
> they scoff at people who send in the ordination fees.
> I've been duped - twice!

Three times actually. That guy, Hal Robins, was excommunicated from the
church several years ago for heresy.

--
Dr. K. "Cortez" Legume
-----------------------------
"I don't need to vote for Legume's work to submit that he's handed guys
like you your asses. He's Tarzan on a big red scooter and you'll never
catch him". ---Februus
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Subject: Re: SubGenius on Kevin Neelon's Conspiracy show 2nite on TNN
From: "NeuroManson" <1llabruf@tsewq.ten>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Feb 19, 2002 4:45 AM
Message-ID: <g9pc8.90784$AV5.409768@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>

"Legume" <none@yerbiz.com> wrote in message
news:Xns91B948EF5EF5CCortezLegume18465086@24.12.106.199...
> King St. Edwin wrote:
>
> > The topic was secret societies and the SubGenius dude was saying that
> > they scoff at people who send in the ordination fees.
> > I've been duped - twice!
>
> Three times actually. That guy, Hal Robins, was excommunicated from the
> church several years ago for heresy.
>

I thought that's what gets you in the Church of the Subgeemis in the first
place?
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Subject: Re: SubGenius on Kevin Neelon's Conspiracy show 2nite on TNN
From: kconvery@ioma.com (The Bishop)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2002 4:08 PM
Message-ID: <f9a02c0.0202201308.3f8e9919@posting.google.com>

slaac@yahoo.com (Rev. Lemuel Atom) wrote in message
news:<49b3655d.0202191258.103671b2@posting.google.com>...
> parsee@whale-mail.com (King St. Edwin) wrote in message
news:<8182bedc.0202171931.679603f1@posting.google.com>...
> > The topic was secret societies and the SubGenius dude was saying that
> > they scoff at people who send in the ordination fees.
> > I've been duped - twice!
>
> Heh. I find Howl's comment ironic, given what HE'S willing to do for twenty
bucks.
>
>
> RLA

Does anyone know when this show will be rebroadcast?
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*******

((Okay, and now here's the CLEANED UP, REVISED version:))

********

SubGenius on Kevin Neelon's Conspiracy show 2nite on TNN

From: parsee@whale-mail.com (King St. Edwin)
Date: Sun, Feb 17, 2002

From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)

YOu've got it bac kwards.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com

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From: Legume <none@yerbiz.com>

King St. Edwin wrote:
> I've been duped - twice!

Three times actually. That guy, Hal Robins, was excommunicated from the
church several years ago for heresy.

From: "NeuroManson" <1llabruf@tsewq.ten>

I thought that's what gets you in the Church of the Subgeemis in the first
place?
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From: kconvery@ioma.com (The Bishop)

slaac@yahoo.com (Rev. Lemuel Atom) wrote:
>
> Heh. I find Howl's comment ironic, given what HE'S willing to do for twenty
bucks.

Does anyone know when this show will be rebroadcast?
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((STANG BACK:

Notice, lads, on that very last one -- The Bishop quotes Lemuel Atom, who had
NOT been seen earlier.

Sometimes I will skip over a post (in this case Lemuel's) because I know that it
is contained in the NEXT post (Bishops) and I figured it would be a good way to
NOT duplicate effort.

However I probably could have just cut Bishop's because his doesn't really say
anything, and keep the Lemuel comment only, which is a better ending.

And so on.

Some of these files are very short and easy. Others, when there were a ton of
posts and lots of controversy, are a BITCH to comb through.

But boy, all our friends' writings sure shine, once the dross is
removed.

Some of it just stays dross probably and I'm too close to the material to tell, but,
hey, close enough for Dobbs work.

JUST MAKE SURE YOU ARE SAVING THE FILES AS PLAIN ASCII TEXT, CROSS
PLATFORM, NO FRILLS!

Or my auto-HTML things won't be able to handle them.

The time schedule:

HURRY!!

Start your free swag-request list. Also think of what huge important titles you want me to refer to you by. The few people who actually did any SuBSITE layout are still being hailed regularly as Gods. Even though most of them only lasted a couple of weeks.

Actually I have found that once you "get going" on this, it goes pretty fast. After you've done a few you'll find that it's easy to quickly skim, select shit with mouse, delete, selct, delete... I would do it myself except my wrists and hands just won't take THAT repetitive of a motion for THAT many posts.

I've divvied up 400 threads amongst 4 of us, about 100 each.

The last "Online Stark Fist" on SubSITE has SOME nicely edited sections, and others where I just said FUCK IT and left headers and reprints... DON'T BE LAZY LIKE ME!!

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