: Thanks for the pointer. After two silent days waiting for reply,
: I decided to  implement a command line for that. Works like a charm !!!

well, sometimes people just don't post because they don't know the 
answer to something (better then 50 people posting "i don't know").

but a big part of hte problem has to do with the issue i mentioned in the 
PS.  When you post an offtopic reply to an existing thread, (even if you 
change the subject)  many people don't notice it -- because they've 
already read some of the messages and decided the thread topic doesn't 
interest them...


: > http://people.apache.org/~hossman/#threadhijack
: > 
: > When starting a new discussion on a mailing list, please do not reply to an
: > existing message, instead start a fresh email.  Even if you change the
: > subject line of your email, other mail headers still track which thread you
: > replied to and your question is "hidden" in that thread and gets less
: > attention.   It makes following discussions in the mailing list archives
: > particularly difficult.
: > See Also:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_hijacking



-Hoss

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