Re: implementing searches?

From: Andrew Daviel <andrew_at_daviel.ml.org_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 22:36:45 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981107221235.467C-100000_at_cr1001800-a.rchmd1.bc.wave.home.com>


On Sat, 7 Nov 1998 alex_at_crawfish.suba.com wrote:

> I'm sorry to ask such a dumb question, but does hypermail support
> searchable archives? Or do people use other programs to implement
> searches?

To my knowledge, no, Hypermail does not of itself support searches (I'll look pretty stupid if someone added that feature since v1.02...;-)

Since it's your system and you can get at the files, you can use a filesystem-based search, or of course a Web robot, or keep submitting to Altavista/Lycos etc...

I put together a (painfully slow) grep-based thing at e.g. http://vancouver-webpages.com/cgi-bin/webgrep/vanlug/1998-8 (try e.g. "COMDEX")

Something with an indexing engine would probably be better for a large list; "glimpse" perhaps

Andrew Daviel
http://vancouver-webpages.com/andrew
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