[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On Oct 29, 2003, at 6:16 PM, J C Lawrence wrote:
> I see two needs, for significantly different populations.  The first
> wants a browsing interface with keyed and indexed by date, thread, and
> author.  The second wands full text search with rapid location and
> retrieval of matching messages.  Often a single user will move between
> the access methods, reading by thread, bouncing over to a search, then
> reading all an author has written that match, then searching again, 
> etc.
> As such two distinct sets of indexes seem called for: full text and
> message meta-data.
>
>> I think you need that, too. But until you get a reasonable context
>> search for the message body, designing the rest is silly.
>
> Is searching message bodies really interesting, or is building indexes
> of message bodies such that you can later search those indexes the
> actually interesting point?

You're basically asking "why do you need google when you have yahoo?"

ask the folks who depend on google.

(and yes, I'm oversimplifying to make a point).

> How does MySQL help you in building language-sensitive rapid response
> indexes of large text blobs?
>

just posted a bunch of links.