Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 18:15:40 EST From: "Christopher J. Tengi" <tengi@Princeton.EDU> You may want to take a look at glimpse and harvest. Here are some useful URLs for them: http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu:1994/ http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/ Both very good systems. Harvest is probably overkill. Glimpse is nice, but I don't know if it handles mail archives (unless they are one-file-per-message).
In article <199501060807.DAA22166@bb.hks.net>, L. McCarthy <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu> wrote:
Tim May writes:
In my opinion, having personal access to past posts is several orders of magnitude more important than having MIDI-MIME JPEG-II TeX players [...]
It takes more disk space from one's personal quota, though (for those who suffer under such restrictions). :[
All posts to cypherpunks since June '94 are available by ftp from ftp.hks.net:/cypherpunks/nntp/cypherpunks. They are also available via nntp from nntp.hks.net:hks.lists.cypherpunks.
I'd be glad to put a search engine of some sort on them, either by Web or by mailserver, if someone can suggest a reasonable way to index the whole lot.
There used to be a WAIS index of cypherpunks on mariposa, but it doesn't seem to work now. WAIS indexing mail archives is pretty easy. - Jonny G