Re: nnir question

[happy@vole.com (mr.sparkle)]

>>>> I use nnir (with swish-e) to search my archived mail and it's great!
>>>> Is there a way to use it to search archived newsgroup threads? Since
>>>> gnus treats news and mail more or less the same, I'm guessing this
>>>> shouldn't be too difficult.
>>
>>   >That depends on how you archive them,  If you use nnml it's only a
>>   >matter of indexing them.
>>
>> I use nndoc-would it be possible to index them and somehow append the
>> news index to the mail index? Or should I start using nnml for the
>> news archives? 

>nnir only handles nnml or other backends with one message per file.  I
>don't know about swish-e, but with the search engine I use (Namazu) you
>simply add any new directories you wish to index to the indexing
>command and they're merged with the original index.

I'll give Namazu a try-I'm always on the lookout for new searching and
indexing tools

>> I have quite a few archived threads in nndoc-would it be very painful
>> to convert them to nnml?

>Not that hard.  Mark all messages in the summary and move them to a new
>group.  Gnus will create a new group if it doesn't exist.

Thanks for the tip-I'll try that