[TriLUG] The tool I'm looking for

[Pete Soper]

On 03/02/2013 08:25 AM, William Sutton wrote:
> 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?
What if the house framing was clumsily cited to try to communicate but 
the real application involves popsicle sticks built inside a bottle?

The google interface to the TriLUG email is a fantastic resource. Thanks 
to you and Rod for the tips. I agree it would be silly to implement a 
search interface to the TriLUG email when Google appears to work so 
well. I'm sorry to just now be explaining that the application 
motivating my question involves private email that didn't pass through 
Google's intestines and is invisible to it's all-seeing eye. I figured 
the question might be more interesting if it was connected to a well 
known instance of a Mailman archive.

But special thanks to Kristopher. I'm looking at Nutch and Solr, but 
also namazu and htdig. And here's the web page I should have found 
earlier ("Doh!"):

  http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/How+do+I+make+the+archives+searchable

-Pete

>
> 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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