Re: CHAT: Summary, web based mailinglist archives

* Boudewijn Rempt (bsarempt@rempt.xs4all.nl) [991024 23:55]:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>
> >
> > So, building a system ourselves seems best. Volunteers? :)
> >
>
> No way! I'm far to busy building Kura as it is (by the way, could you
> vet my back-end some time?) - but I've often thought about building
> some e-mail database myself. Most pattern recognition software seems
> proprietary, and that makes learning a lot more difficult. Maybe
> full-text searching for keywords like 'preterite' or 'insults' would
> be enough, initially? The amount of text Conlang produces isn't exactly
> horrendous, yet.
Having author, date, threading-information and subject in a database,
and grepping through the raw text would be a (quick and) workable
solution. As for sizes, I've guesstimated that the list nets in at
about 130 megs (unpacked) so far, growing with about 30 megs a year...


tal., needing more sugar
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"Better living through conlanging"