* searching news groups
@ 1997-08-01 13:56 Steinar Bang
1997-08-01 15:18 ` Kai Grossjohann
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From: Steinar Bang @ 1997-08-01 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
One thing I find myself doing a lot, is going to Deja News, setting a
search filter, limiting the search to one particular news group (and
maybe an author), and then searching for a particular keyword or
keywords (e.g. searching for problems with -l44bsd on
comp.mail.sendmail today).
And I found myself thinking how nice it would have been to do this
from within a Gnus news group. The actual articles could be retrieved
from the news server, if they were still available, or the search
mechanism could attempt to "fake" the articles, from the HTML versions
on Deja News or Alta Vista or whereever.
I'm not sure how the user interface to this functionality should be,
but I guess it should be possible to implement similar functionality
for mail groups, using glimpse or some other indexing tool.
Just some idle thoughts on a Friday...
Have a nice weekend!
- Steinar
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* Re: searching news groups
1997-08-01 13:56 searching news groups Steinar Bang
@ 1997-08-01 15:18 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-08-04 13:12 ` Steinar Bang
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From: Kai Grossjohann @ 1997-08-01 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
>>>>> On 01 Aug 1997, Steinar Bang said:
Steinar> One thing I find myself doing a lot, is going to Deja News,
Steinar> setting a search filter, limiting the search to one
Steinar> particular news group (and maybe an author), and then
Steinar> searching for a particular keyword or keywords
Steinar> (e.g. searching for problems with -l44bsd on
Steinar> comp.mail.sendmail today).
Try "G w" from the Group buffer.
kai
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* Re: searching news groups
1997-08-01 15:18 ` Kai Grossjohann
@ 1997-08-04 13:12 ` Steinar Bang
1997-08-04 14:31 ` Chris D. Halverson
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From: Steinar Bang @ 1997-08-04 13:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de>:
>>>>> On 01 Aug 1997, Steinar Bang said:
Steinar> One thing I find myself doing a lot, is going to Deja News,
Steinar> setting a search filter, limiting the search to one
Steinar> particular news group (and maybe an author), and then
Steinar> searching for a particular keyword or keywords
Steinar> (e.g. searching for problems with -l44bsd on
Steinar> comp.mail.sendmail today).
> Try "G w" from the Group buffer.
I should have mentioned that I know of nnweb, and while it probably
contains all the necessary "machinery" to do what I want, it doesn't
do so yet.
What I want (that it doesn't do), is to
1. constrain it to a newsgroup
2. get real articles from the newsgroup if I can, fake them from
search results, if they have expired on the server
I would also like to do this from a *Group* buffer, with other
articles from threads the matches appear in, interleaved.
But I'm not clear on how this should look, and work. And it would
involving integrating two backend... hm...
Maybe create a temporary "search group" for a particular group...?
- Steinar
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