From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41657 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: (Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mailing lists and news archiving Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 17:12:53 -0500 Organization: Kippona Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87zo3s30re.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> References: <87lmfc8qem.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> Reply-To: Chris Beggy NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177020 7361 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:10:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:10:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 12320 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 22:14:31 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 22:14:31 -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 16Mz42-0007y7-00; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 16:13:19 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 05 Jan 2002 16:13:12 -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 QAA16805 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:12:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12296 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2002 22:13:01 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12291 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 22:13:01 -0000 Original-Received: from lackawana.kippona.com (root@207.8.195.148) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 22:13:01 -0000 Original-Received: from lackawana.kippona.com (nobody@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lackawana.kippona.com (8.12.2.Beta3/8.12.2.Beta3/Kippona) with ESMTP id g05MD0df003925 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:13:00 -0500 Original-Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lackawana.kippona.com (8.12.2.Beta3/8.12.2.Beta3/Submit/Kippona) id g05MD07p003924; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:13:00 -0500 X-Reply-To: Chris Beggy Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: lackawana.kippona.com 1010268774 3916 207.8.195.148 (5 Jan 2002 22:12:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@kippona.com X-gpgkeyid: 0x8060510A X-fingerprint: 6012 F8F8 29B3 67E4 0604 BCD2 F882 88AE 8060 510A Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q6arPAVtkd5g6xyUKhg49GcEHKU= Original-To: ding@gnus.org Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41657 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41657 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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