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[Harvey Friedman]

I am on the Editorial Board of an automated email list called FOM. Homepage:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/fom

Its archives are also freely available on the web:

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/

It uses Mailman 2.1.6.

We are totally unsatisfied with using Google site search to search the
Archives.

The following features would be a HUGE improvement over what we have:

1. Type in a name of an author, and it searches first to find the closest
match to the correct full name of an author. Then it lists operational links
to all of these, together with the dates of these postings.

2. Type in a "subject string". It searches to find all postings whose
subject line contains that string. Then it lists operational links to all of
these postings, together with the dates of these postings.

3. Type in a "content string". It searches to find all postings whose
content contains that string. Then it lists operational links to all of
these postings, together with the dates of these postings.

Additional features would be valuable, but not necessary.

Is there such software off the shelf? If not, how many man years would you
estimate would be involved in getting this written and implemented?

Harvey Friedman
University Professor
Ohio State University