[TriLUG] The tool I'm looking for

[Pete Soper]

   What if you don't want to be dependent on Google?


-Pete


On 03/01/2013 11:52 PM, R Radford wrote:
> It doesn't handle opening gz files, etc, but William is on the right track.
>
> Google: "raspberry site:trilug.org/pipermail/trilug"
>
> Will search all references to raspberry in the TriLUG mail list,
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:36 PM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
>> 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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