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To: John Sladek who wrote (1097)	2/20/2001 6:56:50 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12465

John, this time around I automated the process. I wrote some .asp code that 1) started at a preselected record, 2) captured the source code, 3) extracted the first line of the post (i.e. up until a hard carriage return and line feed) and wrote it to a file with the associated URL, 4) extracted the "next" URL, 5) looped to step 1 using the "next" URL. I still had to manually group like posts together but it wasn't that bad. I had always planned to write such a program which is why I have a standard first line I use and why it helps me when people do the same. As for the other stuff, I know you are being facetious but it wouldn't be that hard if we needed to do it and we could uniquely identify the desired data. - Jeff