[TriLUG] The tool I'm looking for

[Kristopher Kane]

So, last night I setup what I had told you about and indexed a 5x50 span or
the archive.  It actually worked out of the box and without hassle.  If
there is any more interest on the list, I could write a front end for it.
On Mar 2, 2013 4:14 PM, "Pete Soper" <pete at soper.us> wrote:

> 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<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<http://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/<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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