[TriLUG] The tool I'm looking for

[William Sutton]

What if someone told me it was easier to use a pneumatic nail gun to frame 
my house but I insisted on using a rock instead?

William Sutton

On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Pete Soper wrote:

>  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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