Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 17:19:04 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: djgpp-announce AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Searchable DJGPP mailing list archive at Yaseppochi-gumi

It's here!

Thanks to the request of Eli Zaretskii, I have put together a CGI
search engine for the archives I am maintaining.  If you have a
ISINDEX-capable WWW browser (including Mosaic and Netscape for sure; I
imagine all the recent ones can do this), you can search the DJGPP
archives for 1994 via the URL

	       http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/#djgpp

and select the search link from the bulleted list of services.  Sorry,
there is no plan for an FTP search engine at this time.  If you know
of a public domain Linux FTPD which implements such capacity, please
let me know.  I would be willing to install such.

(I am planning to reorganize my server; this URL may go away, in which
case it will probably become
	     http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/djgpp.html
and of course there will be a pointer from
		  http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/
which is Yaseppochi-gumi's home page.)

Please note that this service is still very crude and experimental.
Improvements, including a forms-based interface, are planned.  This
will allow you to set the amount of context returned, and so on.  I
may also add a better search engine, which would allow you to request
that headers (eg, the "From:" header) be prepended.  I will definitely
add documentation on good search strategies.

One caveat: to speed up searches, I have stripped duplicate headers
generated by RMail and nuisance headers (such as "Reply-to:" and
"Received:") from the archives.  However, the reduction in size of the
*.gz files is suspiciously large, and I suspect that useful content is
somehow being removed as well.  Therefore, for the moment I am
maintaining two sets of files, *.gz and *.stripped.gz, until I can
check how much is being lost.  I still recommend getting the stripped
archives, but if it seems clear that useful content has been stripped,
please let me know!

Many thanks to Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> for his
encouragement in this project and testing the hypertext link, and to
Takoyaki Software's Dylan Cuthbert <dylan AT takoyaki DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> for
doing it first.  If he can do it, I can do it!

Please, please, please!  Send lots of comments or suggestions for
improving this service to:

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