From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31823 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir/freeWAIS-sf Date: 17 Jul 2000 18:03:10 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86g0pb4646.fsf@beta.fciencias.unam.mx> <861z0sx3uh.fsf@beta.fciencias.unam.mx> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168190 16238 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:43:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9EED051E for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:59:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAC21593; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:59:31 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:58:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01791 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:58:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BFF7D051E for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:58:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 9501 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2000 00:57:52 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-116-86.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.116.86) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 18 Jul 2000 00:57:52 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01262; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:03:42 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Francisco Solsona's message of "17 Jul 2000 08:51:02 -0500" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 Original-Lines: 93 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31823 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31823 Francisco Solsona writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > Here I go again making bug reports that are really feature > > requests.... he he. I over looked that information. But coming to > > think of it, wouldn't putting a stanza in *.fmt for Xref: field do the > > same thing? > > I guess you have already proved that in one of your mails. I use `/ /' > (gnus-summary-limit-to-subject) which is good enough for me, because > normally I don't remember the group in which what i'm looking for was > posted. e.g. [...] I have lots of stuff on my nnml server. Several thousand Newgroup postings among them. Several more thousand of messages from freebsd-list groups that are mail to news gateway messages. What I was after works something like this. . . . Lets say I 'm looking for specific freebsd info. Not very likely to find the good stuff in most of my groups, however all the freebsd groups contain an Xref header indicating which group they are in. I've also added a `newsgoups' stanza to *.fmt. Because of the thousands of Usenet posts I have on my nnml server. The newsgroups field can be used in the same way. These queries are probably inaccurate and definitely untested (mostly). I'm having trouble authoring queris that work consistently, but you'll get the idea: Query: xref=(freebsd) and kernel and compile That syntax doesn't actually work but I think it will if I get it right. The objective above is to search only messages from freebsd groups with `kernel' and `compile' in the body.. I don't want a bunch of hits from my redhat Linux lists about compiling the linux kernel in this particular search, or from nnml:comp.os.linux.misc Another example might be, if looking for some examples of shell scripts under the Korn shell. A likely place to find that is comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.shells: Query: newsgroups=(comp.unix) and Korn and script > > it would be cool to be able to search for `from=Putnam and > group=ding' using freeWais, though. The *.fmt file I posted containing the xref stanza will do exactly that. I have tested this to some extent. Query: xref=ding and from=Putnam I think you could be even more specific but not sure of the syntax: Query: (xref=ding) and (from=Putnam) and .fmt (NOTE: syntax is incorrect) Should find only messages from ding that are from Putnam and contain `.fmt' in the body. Query: (xref=ding) and (from=larsi) and unplugged. ding only .. from lars .. containing `unplugged' in the body [...] > > The few times I've seen this is when, for instance, the message is one > of those nasty replies that include the full message under a line > reading: -----Original Message-----, and then a few headers from the > previous message (To, From, Subject, etc.) Are you sure, those last > two messages don't include a line starting with: "Subject:" and having > "give" on the same lines on the body of the message? Can't be sure now, I've changed the database extensively, trying to recreate the condition isn't likely. However Running that command now finds only the ones in bbdb group that say give in subject line as it should so maybe I did something wrong. [...] > > > Results of trying to use the makedb approach with Kai's makedb.conf > > [...] Unknown database 'mail' > > This sounds like you have a broken makedb script on your system, I > installed the freeWais FreeBSD port, and it worked out of the box. It > was a nightmare to try it on Linux, though. I'm using the makedb that was generated when installing freeWAIS-2.2.13, also via a freeBSD port. The only makedb.conf I have is the one from the comments in nnir.el