[TriLUG] The tool I'm looking for

R Radford rradford at mindspring.com
Fri Mar 1 23:52:27 EST 2013


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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