[arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #234 Progress update

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It's very easy to add links at the start of your hotlist to other lists, =
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the same way that IE lets you add folders within the "Favourites" list.

I have at least 10 hotlists linked from the main list in Arachne.

Mike

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From: "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx>
To: <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:11 PM
Subject: [arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #234 Progress update


> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:54:40 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:
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> > The mob is still too small, but we are *very* hard at it.  Old news
> > is that Michal (That's "Dr. Tyc" to you < G G G > is completely =
rewriting
> > the bitmap handling. Joe is working his cookie size and online timer
> > improvements into the cleaned code, and I'm experimenting with
> > a total re-working of the way Arachne configures herself (it seems =
to
> > be going well). If my master plan works out, we'll eventually have
> > full error checking during startup, so that Arachne will tell you
> > what the problem is instead of just stopping if some setting or =
other
> > is incorrect. Glenn has '1.77' in the works.
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> Wow! Such fundamental rewrites ought to keep you fellows busy for
> awhile.
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> Error checking during startup with reports would certainly be useful.
> It's not unusual for for Arachne to crash and lockup for me during
> startup. SCANDISK almost always sets things right again after a =
reboot.
> The same bunch of Arachne files get damaged over and over. I've
> never been able to figure out why this happens. Actually, since
> I can fix things by running SCANDISK, I don't give it much thought.
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> Thanks for the update, Ray.
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> Here's a suggestion for a new feature that's urgently needed (IMHO)
> Arachne needs multiple hotlists and a better way to orgainize and
> edit an existing hotlist.
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> Why not be presented with a choice of hotlists when you save an
> item? This could work just like saving an email where you have a =
choice
> of folders to save to. That way I could save hotlist items to =
different
> lists, sorting by subject matter or other category.
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> Also it would useful to be able to sort an existing list by when the
> items were added or alphabetically. And there ought to be an easy
> way to transfer an item from one list to another.
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> As it is now I can always start a new list by manually renaming the
> existing list, but I can't sort or save to different lists.=20
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> Would something like that be easy to implement?
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> Sam Ewalt
> Croswell, Michigan, USA
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