From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wsip-24-120-30-5.lv.lv.cox.net ([24.120.30.5] helo=awhms1.activewebhosting.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJG0x-0007XK-00 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:12:04 -0400 Received: from [68.116.110.222] by awhms1.activewebhosting.com (ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro for WinNT/2000/XP, Version 1.8 (1.8.5.8)); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:11:35 -0700 From: dking@pimpsoft.com Organization: pimpsoft.com To: Sean McMahon , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:15:31 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4090E3D3.1211.4EEB52B0@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <01b101c42e11$ba7b21d0$77ac7682@azwaterDOM.wr.usgs.gov> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.11) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-ArGoMail-Authenticated: dking@pimpsoft.com Cc: Subject: Re: search engine for the archives? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:12:04 -0000 A mysql database, designed to use both posted dates/times and topics as the primary key may work better then a grep based solution as you said; I happen to know a small amount of relational data base design, and from my limited experience a small one table mysql database with a php front end may fit the needs of the project, then again I may be wrong. The difference is search; What do you want to search by? The initial design of the database would define its abilities and how you can interact with it, what and how you can search it and so forth, designed badly it would be un-searchable. - D On 29 Apr 2004 at 10:45, Sean McMahon wrote: > Yeah that's a good idea I don't even know how to get to the archives. Each html > page could be titled with the subject of the mail message. So then perl would > just have to search the directory with the subjects of the e-mail you're > grepping The other way do do this is to create a small database but that might > be more complex.