[R-390] Pearls

[wli]

........<snip>  The "pearls" documentation is a distillation of the best of what has been
>posted in this email group for many years. It is better than reading
>through thousands of pages of debate and takes it down to "only a few
>hundred" pages. <lol>. It is sorted by topic to make your life a little
>easier. Still, if you are looking for a quick reference to just one answer
>you will be disappointed. Nobody on here thinks like that and W. Li did not
>take to revising the writings that far.<snip>

Thanks for the observations on *Pearls*. What prompted this project of mine was frustration at being able to locate earlier posts re solving individual technical issues. Taking a hint from how the public library arranges its books, I felt attempting to segregate posts by topic would be useful for me. Obviously, others may or may not agree on how I separated topics. However, the one thing I did not want to do was alter what was posted (other than mis-spellings, typo's, or formatting).. and also give credit to each author by posting their qth.

As they are posted as pdf files, they should be accessible to whatever computer we employ. My impression is that Adobe Reader does allow searches for either a keyword or phrase. (It does so on mine, but then I use a Mac with Reader version 11.001). So it is a matter of figuring out where such a subject might be sorted, then doing a simple *find* for the word or phrase that interests you. As time has gone on, these files have grown larger and larger, and I would be happy to consider suggestions on how to make them smaller. 

I have taken the unilateral perogative of not posting for sale items, jokes, political diatribes, or personal attacks. Anyone who does not want their postings included in Pearls needs to contact me directly off-list.

Folks are obviously free to go through the R390A digests and create their own compact distillations. Perry has already done so in the Y2K Addendums.

I have reviewed posts going back to 1997, most are there. 

W. Li