One disadvantage to the archives is that links contained in them are often
broken.  I was going to send an email to ask about the proper technique to
using a router plane (I have both a Miller Falls and a Lie-Nielsen), as I
was having problems with the chip curling up into the joint between the
blade and the holder for the blade, but refrained from asking for fear that
it had been posted before.

I searched the archives for "router plane" and came back with many posts
that had broken links, like a review on Lee Valley's router plane, pictures
of a handmade scraper for the router plane, etc.

Would a compromise be a better way of archiving the emails?  Is it hard to
write a script to grab pictures from the links in an email and save the
actual file, and not just the link, in the archive?

Should we make instructions to standardize how we post pictures, or have a
couple of options, to make it easier to write said script?

I use gmail for my emailing (I have it pull from my hotmail), and it has a
"labs gadget" that automatically displays picture previews linked to picasa
and flickr, and imbeds youtube videos that are linked.  I don't know if you
could steal the script from them, or use another google application to
"archive the archive."

Another invaluable benefit of the Porch that I haven't seen mentioned, is
the use it has when I can show my wife the *daily* digest of 10-50+ emails,
and say, "look, I'm not the only one!!"

Jesse
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