Re: Mailing lists and news archiving

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

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

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> So are you still considering it, or are there already many of them
>> available?
>
> I've already done it, sorta.  But I'm wondering 1) whether to feed my
> mail repository into the news spool (for instance, I've got something
> like 5000 xemacs-beta mails I could feed into the server), and 2)
> whether to rename the groups.
>
>> You asked about hierarchy:.. The way freebsd does it is like:
>>
>> mailing.freebsd.questions
>> mailing.freebsd.stable
>> etc
>>
>> So maybe there is a sort of defacto `mailing' hierarchy.
>
> I haven't seen that name elsewhere.  I've seen "fa.", though.
>
> How about "gmane", which is short for "Gnu MAil-to-NEws"?  And is
> pronounced "main", of course.

Good as any.. another choice might be g-m2n


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

> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>
>> Would it be possible to provide some sort of emacs-friendly search
>> interface to your newsspool?
>
> Of course.
>
> I'm just wondering whether it's possible to do this whether NNTP or
> whether some extra-protocol channel has to be used.  innd probably
> doesn't come with glimpse or wais pre-installed, but would it be
> possible to have a new NNTP command that would hand off a query to an
> external agent and output the result from that?
>
> Like:
>
> XSEARCH group:gnus.ding search.*term
>
> innd would then do system("/usr/bin/search-program") with the search
> terms from stdin, and just output what the search-program outputs.  It
> could, for instance, return a list of headers with in valid NNTP
> format.
>
> I could write a proof-of-concept version of "search-program"...

Karl K, is something of a `swish++' advocate, in my own experience it is
something of a dog to build and get running... never did get it
running. But Karl claims it is fast.