[TriLUG] The tool I'm looking for

[Vinay Augustine]

That's not the right comparison. 


How about "do you want to hire a contractor" (google) or "use your own tools" (nutch/lucene)?


– Vinay

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 8:25 AM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> 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?
> 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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