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Date: 12/11/2020 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2020 : Issue 63
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      The OTR Digest                        [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      Re: Copies of the OTR Digest          [ Kathleen Dean <kayteedean@[removed] ]
      Early postings                        [ mmartini@[removed] ]
      Digests with Bartell and Stone        [ "Jim Widner" <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      Archiving the OTR Digest              [ Vince Long <vlongbsh@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:08:02 -0500
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: The OTR Digest

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>     Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 15:54:36 -0600
>     From: Tom Barnett <[removed]@[removed];

>     I have been a member of this community for around 23 years. I loved that Cha=
>     rlie stepped in when Bill Pfieffer passed. It has been an internet hub for m=
>     y OTR news and interests.

    I, too, have been a long-time member of this list, for at least 25 years
    and possibly [removed]  And I recall that when Bill Pfeiffer passed, the
    digest also operated on autopilot for [removed]  I think it was a relief
    to all of us when Charlie stepped in and continued the [removed]  I hope
    that someone will do the same this [removed]  I think Charlie would want that.

    BTW, We've been seeing a demonstration of one of the things Charlie did
    on the list, removing the various spurious equals signs and other
    symbols that get introduced when we send messages that aren't in pure
    ASCII [removed]  after several attempts, with help and advice from Charlie,
    I still haven't been able to get my client software (Mozilla
    Thunderbird) to do it.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed] B7 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 B7 Newton, MA 02459
    [removed] B7 [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:44:56 +0000 (UTC)
    From: Kathleen Dean <kayteedean@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Re: Copies of the OTR Digest

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    Re: On saved copies of the OTR DigestB
    My copies of the OTR Digest goes back to March 2011;B there might be a few
    postings missing.
    Stay safe,Kathleen (Dean)n Ridenour

    B

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    Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:47:46 -0000
    From: mmartini@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Early postings

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    Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when I first joined, I printed out copies and stuck them in a [removed]  I doubt I printed all of them, but I did get a bunch, judging from the stack of paper in the [removed]  The problem is just [removed] are all hard copies and I certainly don't have
    time to re-scan and digitize [removed]  But I have them, if anyone wants to [removed]  Being a packrat sometimes has its rewards.
    -Mike

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    Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:30:38 +0000
    From: "Jim Widner" <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Digests with Bartell and Stone

    As per Walden Hughes request, I have inelegantly posted two volumes of the=
     old time radio digest on my web site at these two addresses:

    [removed]

    [removed]

    These are quickly and roughly thrown together. To view posts from Harry Bar=
    tell and Hal Stone, you will need to do a search while on the page. A searc=
    h from a PC is Ctrl F, which opens a box usually at the bottom of your brow=
    ser in Firefox and at the top right in Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Then type =
    in or paste in these two ids for each gentleman:

    Harry Bartell <bartell@[removed]

    hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];

    You can then go down and find each entry with those text searches.

    This is as I said quick and dirty and perhaps with time, I can clean it up=
     and make it more elegant. If you just need the text file versions of these, =
    I'll try to get them onto my site for downloading. Time is the issue at th=
    e moment. I have digests from the start of Charlie's site in 1998 to 2002,=
     plus some from pre-Charlie when Bill Pfeiffer was the host.  From what I ca=
    n tell Hal Stone and Harry Bartell posted through the two years I have post=
    ed.

    Jim Widner
    jwidner@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:13:03 -0700
    From: Vince Long <vlongbsh@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Archiving the OTR Digest

    Walden Hughes asked about an archive of past digests.  I've been on the
    list since before Charlie's reign and did some saving. From before
    Charlie took over the list I have:

    Volume 95 : Issue 338  -  28 Oct 1995
    through
    Volume 96 : Issue 507  -  31 Dec 1996

    which is 634 files, [removed] MB.  These are all in plain text. (I had to
    resurrect one of my old computers to get these as these were on 3-1/2
    floppies!)

    Then from Charlie's era, I have:

    Volume 01 : Issue 26 - 24 Jan 2001
    through
    Volume 01 : Issue 235 - 22 Jul 2001

    which is 211 files (a few side letters included) for [removed] MB. These are
    in HTML format.

    After that last one he changed the Volume to match the 4-digit year so I
    continue with:

    Volume 2001 : Issue 236 - 23 Jul 2001
    through
    Volume 2020 : Issue 62 -  9 Dec 2020

    for another 4,606 files, [removed] MB, in HTML format.  All total, 5,451
    files, 111 MB.

    There might be one or two here and there in those runs that I missed but
    not many.  While I have some programming skills and space, I'm am not up
    to creating a searchable archive if someone else would like to take it
    on with these files.  The files are named as my email client at the time
    exported them, which for the plain text was OTR followed by the year and
    issue number.  The HTML files are named by the full mailing date along
    with the volume and issue number. As the file naming is pretty
    consistent, inserting these into database and extracting dates, volume,
    and issues would be relatively easy.

    So, if someone wants to take this I can get them the files.

    Vince

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