search engine for the archives?

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi all. I've contemplated this time and time again, however I'm not sure 
anyone has thought of it. Has anyone thought of working on a search 
script that would accept a keyword as input, and then output a list of 
messages containing that keyword/series of words? If this somehow hasn't 
been thought of yet, I'm wondering if anyone is actually interested in 
something like this. The reason I thought of doing this is bc I'm 
watching the Speech Dispatcher thread, and I know I will want to refer 
back to it once I get my laptop because I may be installing software 
speech on it. Also, I will most likely forget where the thread is in the 
archives, and I thought it would be nice if I could just search for it. 
In terms of implementing such functionality, I'm thinking Perl is a good 
option. And then depending on where the archive pages are actually 
located/structure of the pages themselves, the script could then pass 
the input along to grep. The grep output would be contained in an array, 
which would then be parced and returned to the user in the form of a 
result listing. The reason I say that it will be parced is because the 
grep output is most likely going to be in the form of HTML pages, and 
the script will need to strip out all the extranious HTML tags, and then 
render the results in a new page. Anyone like/dislike this idea? 
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