search engine for the archives?

[dking at pimpsoft.com]

Well, what is currently being used?  I think that is the place to 
start, other then that doing anything else would be a waste of time, 
since we need to be able to use the archives data.

Is Kirk the only one who knows what we are using?

 - D

On 29 Apr 2004 at 15:12, Sean McMahon wrote:

> Then it depends on what we have grep may work better.
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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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