Re: CHAT: Summary, web based mailinglist archives

tal writes:
>>>>>>
The myriad of archivers out there, like hypermail and mhonarc, doesn't
have inbuilt search-mechanisms. You can view messages by thread, author,
subject, date etc., but if you're looking for something specific, a
phrase or similar, you're out of luck. (And with the subject-lines of
postings here on conlang-l tending to stay the same no matter what,
browsing subjects doesn't do much good either.)

Looking at it from an IR perspective, our list isn't very well suited
for search-engines as they are today, because the list is multi-lingual,
and the level of expertise in English varies wildly. Suffice to say,
ir-systems likes the orthography to be consistent and the total amount
of possible words to be less than infinite :)

So, building a system ourselves seems best. Volunteers? :)
<<<<<<

I've no idea about IR techniques, to me IR is what makes my Remote Control work.
<G>  However, I consider myself fairly competent and as adaptable as is
reasonable, so I'll happily help form a think-tank, though potentially on the
edges.  Deja.com (at least how it was in the bad old days) seems to have about
the ideal functionality, search-engine- and auto-threading- wise.  Without the
multiple groups, of course.

JM2C

Pb







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