From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Fri Mar 15 15:13:54 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 15 Mar 2002 23:13:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 35461 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2002 23:13:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Mar 2002 23:13:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta06-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.46) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2002 23:13:51 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.253.89.206]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020315231349.GMIL7000.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:13:49 +0000 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] lojban.org transfer, reprise. Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:12:35 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=77248971 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin Jay: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >=20 > > > and we have a huge bank of archives that are nicely searchable. > > > > Trivially reproducable. >=20 > Just a heads up, mail archiving software sucks. > Searching systems suck, too. The indexing and stuff for just the static > content of the old list archive I've got, is hundreds of megabytes. (Ther= e > are maybe 10 megabytes of emails or so?) >=20 > Your best bet on that count is to just get Google to index it, keep it on > a virtual host, and then use Google to search it with the site: > restriction. :) I second that. Our archives are a valuable resource, but it is nigh on impossible to search them satisfactorily. I have found Google to be fractionally better, though searching for words with an apostrophe is difficult. But certainly a properly searchable archive would be an exceptionally worthwhile project for our many technical wizards on this list. I don't intend these remarks to be a slight on the facility Jay has already provided us with, which are a great improvement on having no archives at all. --And.