>>>>> On Mon, 10 Jan 1994 14:27:43 +0100, Harald Backer
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Harald> Anyone got an archive system for their mail/news?
Harald> It is too slow/difficult to retrieve information from
Harald> stored mails/news articles. Today I use mail folders and
Harald> VM as archive, but the folders grow too big. And there is
Harald> no good way of searching for e.g. a regexp in a subject
Harald> field in some/all folders (I use grep:(. In other words I
Harald> would like an index file and a nice VM or gnus like
Harald> interface.
I use VM and nn to generate and manage folders, and Gopher/WAIS to
index and search them. It's why I got into running a Gopher,
originally.
JZ> I was playing around with doing this sort of thing with WAIS a
JZ> while back, but it was just way too buggy - 50% of the time
JZ> I'd get a core file instead of an index. dbm databases would
JZ> probably be enough.
FreeWAIS (0.202) and the IUBio WAIS (w8b5bio) code are much improved
over early releases of the WAIS indexer/server.
I have also heard good things about the lq-text text
indexing/searching engine, but haven't personally used it. I
understand it sits behind the Online Career Center up at
gopher.msen.com, which is primarily mailbox-format items in an
index/retrieval system.
-jml
