From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41665 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mailing lists and news archiving Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 08:13:44 +0100 Organization: Denizens of Doom, Norway Chapter Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87wuywost3.fsf@bang.priv.no> References: <87lmfc8qem.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> <87zo3s30re.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177027 7409 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:10:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:10:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 22778 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 07:29:10 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2002 07:29:10 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16N7h8-00025e-00; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 01:26:14 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 06 Jan 2002 01:26:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA18481 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 01:25:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 22733 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2002 07:25:53 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22722 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 07:25:52 -0000 Original-Received: from c96s55h3.upc.chello.no (HELO biaggi) (213.46.211.96) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Jan 2002 07:25:52 -0000 Original-Received: from sb by biaggi with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16N7gX-0007QG-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 08:25:37 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87zo3s30re.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> ((Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2002 17:12:53 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/20.7 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 30 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41665 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41665 >>>>> (Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: [snip!] >> The query can be via HTTP to some search engine or other running >> separately on Quimby. For instance a Glimpse thing, or whatever is >> the done thing these days. >> I think such a thing could be done without too much work... > Sounds like extending nnir.el with wais (Z.90) or glimpse (http) The latest free glimpse versions have bugs in them that makes them crash during indexing of large spools. This happened for me when I attempted to index my nnml groups for use with nnir. Dunno if the debian glimpse package has been patch to fix this? The newer glimpse versions are commercial, I think. The htdig package may be an alternative, but I have never used it myself. apt-get install htdig > for searching a published index on the server with the archived > groups. nntp isn't good for this, I agree. How about allowing access to the news spool from a cyrus IMAP server? Doesn't that open for searching via nnir? Or is that perhaps just a flat text search, not an indexed search like glimpse or htdig?