Hello,
I spent some time last night finishing off the archive
searcher I'd started a while ago. I decided that the archives
would be indexed month by month, people would pick a range of
months they wished to search, and the results would be
presented in monthly chunks in reverse chronological order.
Some months we've had up to 850 messages go by, and there are
a lot of words repeated, so I think this will work out well.
Indexing all the archives in one big lump would make them too
hard to manage.
I also stripped out all the RARA-AVIS stuff added to the
subject lines, so the results are a lot easier to read. Right
now only 2000 is indexed, but I'll add 1997-1999 when I see
how much disk space they'll use. I'll probably index a
month's worth of archived mail at the start of the next
month, so you won't be able to search the latest messages.
You can always just browse through the archives by hand,
though.
The search program is at
http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/archives/rasearch.cgi
Make sure you tick off "Entire year" for 2000, or choose some
months within this year. Try searching on gunsel or "james
crumley" or something like that. I've forgotten if SWISH-E,
the indexer, allows ands or ors or
+ modifiers, but I'll check into that. Let me know if you get
any weird results or you have any suggestions.
Bill
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