[24943] in Cypherpunks
Indexing and searching (was Re: public vs. private replies)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonny Goldman)
Fri Jan 6 23:02:12 1995
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 95 16:20:43 PST
From: Jonny Goldman <jonny@Synopsys.COM>
To: tengi@Princeton.EDU
Cc: cactus@seabsd.hks.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: "Christopher J. Tengi"'s message of Fri, 06 Jan 1995 18:15:40 EST <9501062315.AA29835@deepthought.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 18:15:40 EST
From: "Christopher J. Tengi" <tengi@Princeton.EDU>
You may want to take a look at glimpse and harvest. Here are some useful URLs
for them:
http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu:1994/
http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/
Both very good systems. Harvest is probably overkill. Glimpse is nice,
but I don't know if it handles mail archives (unless they are
one-file-per-message).
>
> In article <199501060807.DAA22166@bb.hks.net>,
> L. McCarthy <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu> wrote:
> >Tim May writes:
> >> In my opinion, having personal access
> >> to past posts is several orders of magnitude more important than
> >> having MIDI-MIME JPEG-II TeX players [...]
> >
> >It takes more disk space from one's personal quota, though (for those who
> >suffer under such restrictions). :[
>
> All posts to cypherpunks since June '94 are available by ftp from
> ftp.hks.net:/cypherpunks/nntp/cypherpunks. They are also available
> via nntp from nntp.hks.net:hks.lists.cypherpunks.
>
> I'd be glad to put a search engine of some sort on them, either by
> Web or by mailserver, if someone can suggest a reasonable way to index
> the whole lot.
There used to be a WAIS index of cypherpunks on mariposa, but it doesn't
seem to work now.
WAIS indexing mail archives is pretty easy.
- Jonny G
