Turnout was very light at the December 5 meeting: Jenny, Richard, and I were the only ones who made it, so we just sat around and talked for a half hour (never even setting up the equipment, and then we left.

I hope no one came late.

I had a problem which I wanted to be able to show the group. Bob McNulty assisted me with an access program to use SendMsg to send a the same email message to a group of addresses, with each person getting a separate message. Initially this was for a need I had in APCUG, but with the mess going on in Florida I also used it for a program to send email messages to legislators in Washington, legislators in Florida, and media outlets, urging them to help bring this month of legal action to an end.. The problem, with both programs, is that the message plus the subject seems to be limited to 255 characters, because the message sent truncates at about 200 characters.

Bob gave me a VB module he wrote which should work, but I was a bit unclear on how to install it, and I thought that would be a good exercise for our Access Sig, but since we never set up the equipment, we never had the chance to try it on December 5. I communicated with Bob via email after the meeting and he was able to help me get it working with long messages.

Surely the election mess in Florida will be over before our meeting on January 9, in fact all signs are Gore may concede today, but we may want for us to take a look at it on January 9, because I think the technique Bob came up with is very good, and others may want to use it for their own applications. There is one other thing which I would like to be able to do with it, and that is come up with a way to do attachments in a generalized fashion, that will work regardless of what email client a person is using. Bob does not believe that can be done, in a general fashion, but if anyone can come up with a way I could use it for APCUG, and in fact if you want to take a look at it before the January meeting, go to http://singleton.virtualave.net/political.htm and download the file. If you can get it to work with attachments (there is a "test" table you can put your email address in), let me know how.

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