I make a number of false starts. I try picking up all the FirstClass postings and dragging them into a folder on my hard disk, but I only succeed in picking up aliases. I try cutting and pasting text consecutively into a Word document, but the header information won’t cut and paste. I try and fail to use the FirstClass archive function (don’t have the right permissions, and I’m not sure that I want to end up with a FirstClass archive).

Some sort of image would be good, so I buy and download SnagIt software which allows me to save rolling screens. I arrange the conferences according to date, author, title, size and take pictures of each. This works for most of the conferences, but one seems to have author search set as default and refuses to treat any other arrangement seriously. I’ve had this problem with FirstClass before and have failed to solve it. And its Help function is atrocious.

I start to take screen dumps of each posting in turn, but this is laborious, and I have to type in the title of each one, and I can’t quite see how I’d use these in future. I stop doing this. Time for a new approach.