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Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
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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: Mon, 3 May 2004 00:17:46 -0500

Ilan Volow, email@hidden, wrote:
>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.

It's hardly cool, but it's (barely) functional. Here's the
projects+source+binaries:

<http://rentzsch.com/share/JRFoundation-0.dmg> (92K)
<http://rentzsch.com/share/AppleListSearch-0.dmg> (104K)

One possibility is to remove the dependence on local files. That is,
download the entire mailing list, index it, and then redistribute only
the index. I haven't tried cocoa-dev yet, but xcode-users index weighs in
at 3.5MB (zips down to 1.5MB) for a 18.9 MB archive folder.

The searching+ranking or results would be instantaneous, and the client
app could use WebKit to display the actual posting content.

>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.

I don't use Mail.app. Can't you restrict your search to only certain
folders?

>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.

Whoa.

>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.

Hmm.

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