[TriLUG] The tool I'm looking for

[William Sutton]

I've found I can search Google for whatever as long as I include "trilug" 
in the search :-)

William Sutton

On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Pete Soper wrote:

> I'd like to be able to point something at the archives of a GNU Mailman list 
> and have it go "poof!" and create a local (on my computer) something that 
> could be interacted with using whatever (web browser, Ruby script, I don't 
> care) that would allow searching the messages.  For instance if I had this 
> URL: http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/ it would be nice to have a tool 
> that would grok the structure of that web page, get some or all of the .gz 
> files, create a searchable database, and make available an interface such 
> that a query result would point back to the archived messages. It would of 
> course score extra bonus points if this mechanism could be copied to an 
> arbitrary server so anybody on the Internet could enjoy the fruits of this 
> tool's labor.
>
> Put a different way, it's the year 2013. How is it possible that the TriLUG 
> email isn't searchable, or have I just not found it after all this time?
>
> -Pete
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