[thelist] ASP: First 100 words in a record

[Ken Kogler]

> Wouldn't it be easier to have a separate 'synopsis' field
> instead of trying to pull it from the content? That may
> be counter to the original question/intention, but how
> 'bout in general?

In general, it's best practice, yeah. But in this case, I was contracted to
"pretty up the frontend" and re-organized the backend interface of a site
without touching the db itself.

In a perfect world, every article would have a separate field for the
synopsis, one for meta keywords, etc...