Re: Message Summaries

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On October 9, 2002 at 23:35, "Karyl F. Stein" wrote:

> I'm trying to make an archive where there's a brief summary of the 
> message, (e.g. the first 20 words of the email body), included in the 
> message list.  Basically, I want to make something that looks like a 
> Slashdot type site, but without all the community features that those 
> systems seem to include.  Has anyone done something like that?  If so, 
> I'd appreciate any tips / configurations.

Have a look at the mha-preview program in the examples
directory of the distribution (also available at
<http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/examples/mha-preview>).

It is a custom front-end to MHonArc that
supports a $X-MSG-PREVIEW$ resource variable
representing the first X characters of a message.  Check out
<http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=mhonarc-users&i=200205032053.g43Kri114838@gator.earlhood.com>
for the list message I posted about this script.

--ewh

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