Searching the Archives

David_Lebling · 29 Jan 1999, 11:33 · from urth-v0023.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: David_Lebling at avid.com
Subject: (urth) Searching the Archives
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:33:27
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Altavista Discovery is a product that allows you to index the text on your
system.  If you burst the archives into separate files (one for each
message), it would allow you to access them using their search engine.

You can do queries like "mantis agia claw" to find files that had those
three words in them.

I tried a Beta version of this about a year ago and it worked pretty well.
I don't know what its current state is, but navigate to "
http://discovery.altavista.com" to find out more.  It's a free download.

     -- Dave Lebling
     (aka vizcacha)

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