Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
- Subject: Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
- From: "Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 00:39:56 -0500
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>Right now, I'm still working on the download part, so the
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>implementation of the search part is still wide open. I'm not really
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>very well informed on search technology besides grep, so if anyone
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>wants to help me with this project (e.g. create a python module for
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>SearchKit, advice on how to structure the thing, etc), your help would
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>be greatly appreciated.
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>
I wrote a minimal Cocoa app that allows searching of the downloaded
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archives using SearchKit. If folks are serious about offline searching,
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then it probably makes sense for me to open the ObjC code so we all can
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make it better.
I thought about this some more, after playing with the app and deciding
on enhancements. I think that instead of writing a dedicated app, the
logical thing would be to reconstruct a .mbox from the downloaded list
archives. That would enable searching in Mail.app, with niceties like
date sorting, threading, etc.
| Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch
http://rentzsch.com
| Red Shed Software
http://redshed.net
| "better" necessarily means "different"
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