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: Ilan Volow <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 03:55:14 -0400
On May 2, 2004, at 1:39 AM, Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch wrote:
Right now, I'm still working on the download part, so the
implementation of the search part is still wide open. I'm not really
very well informed on search technology besides grep, so if anyone
wants to help me with this project (e.g. create a python module for
SearchKit, advice on how to structure the thing, etc), your help
would
be greatly appreciated.
I wrote a minimal Cocoa app that allows searching of the downloaded
archives using SearchKit. If folks are serious about offline
searching,
then it probably makes sense for me to open the ObjC code so we all
can
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.
There are several issues I see with using Mail.app for this:
1. It sounds like you wrote some really cool code. It would be a shame
for it to gather dust on your hard drive. It might also provide a
useful example to people trying to learn how to use SearchKit.
2. Some people (such as myself) have to occasionally search all their
mailboxes for a piece of info in a message. If you're one of those
people, you'd hate to have 300MB of additional stuff to search through.
3. There are some types of things that Mail wouldn't do but a dedicated
app would. One feature that dedicated app could do would be to let you
browse archives messages by the Cocoa classes they mention. Sort of a
"class browser" for mailing list messages.
4. With a dedicated app (or a portion thereof), one could rig up a
script to make the archives viewer appear via a command in XCode.
--
Ilan Volow
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
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