From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1417 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: happy@vole.com (mr.sparkle) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nnir question Date: 07 Nov 2002 00:52:20 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <87u1iwuh3t.fsf@enberg.org> <87el9zvr1t.fsf@enberg.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668195 11212 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:43:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:07 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!newsfeed1.ulv.nextra.no!nextra.com!news.ost.eltele.no.MISMATCH!news.teledanmark.no!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!c02.atl3!news.webusenet.com!telocity-west!TELOCITY!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: vitas@localhost.localdomain User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1557 Original-Lines: 29 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1557 Tue Jan 17 17:29:07 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1417 Archived-At: >>>> 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