search engine for the archives?

[Sean McMahon]

Then it depends on what we have grep may work better.
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From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at lava-net.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: search engine for the archives?


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> The only problem with a database that i see as of right now is that then
> the entire archiving system will have to be re-done. But then again, I
> may be wrong. The way I'm trying to design this is so that you can drop
> it in, and have it use the existing archiving system however it's
> implemented.
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:15:31AM -0700, dking at pimpsoft.com wrote:
> > A mysql database, designed to use both posted dates/times and topics as the
primary key may work better then a grep based solution as you said; I happen to
know a
> > small amount of relational data base design, and from my limited experience
a small one table mysql database with a php front end may fit the needs of the
project,
> > then again I may be wrong.
> >
> > The difference is search; What do you want to search by? The initial design
of the database would define its abilities and how you can interact with it,
what and how
> > you can search it and so forth, designed badly it would be un-searchable.
> >
> >  - D
> > On 29 Apr 2004 at 10:45, Sean McMahon wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah that's a good idea I don't even know how to get to the archives.
Each html
> > > page could be titled with the subject of the mail message.  So then perl
would
> > > just have to search the directory with the subjects of the e-mail  you're
> > > grepping The other way do do this is to create a small database but that
might
> > > be more complex.
> >
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