[TriLUG] The tool I'm looking for

[William Sutton]

In that light, the question makes a whole lot more sense.  I would agree 
that Solr for that application is a very good way to go :-)

William Sutton

On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Pete Soper 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
>
> -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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