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[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

(I think the ding mailing list must be backlogged or something,
because it's five hours since the previous message to the list was
delivered here...)

I've now written scripts for swishing over the spool and searching the
indexes.  I've done it in a fairly straightforward manner -- the
indexing script goes over the spool and indexes any group that is
newer than the index for that group.  (The index files are kept in a
separate spool that apes the main spool.)

The searching function takes a group name, the requested number of
matches, and the search string in this format:

gnu.emacs.gnus:100:emacs sex mpeg

(which I think will be a pretty representative search string.)

Now, if someone would hack inn to take an XSEARCH command, then I
could have Gnus offer a command to use this...

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen