Re: Mailing lists and news archiving

[(Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I was actually pondering these very things.  How to do a convenient
> search from Gnus from such a repository?
>
> Ok, say you go enter the gnus.xemacs.beta group.  (I should come up
> with a better top level hierarchy, though.)  You press the "search"
> button, and type in a text.  Gnus queries Quimby, and gets a list of
> Message-IDs back.  Gnus then requests these headers from the news
> server, and displays them in the buffer.
>
> 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)
for searching a published index on the server with the archived
groups.  nntp isn't good for this, I agree.

What about browsing though?

Chris