please comment on technologies

[Aahz]

In article <slrnbalplq.254.luc at trillian.dont-panic.info>,
luc wastiaux  <luc at nospam.com> wrote:
>
>Hello, I am writing the specifications for a school project (the
>subject is free for us to choose), I was thinking about doing a
>news-server archive database just like google groups, but on a smaller
>scale (it would only archive a limited number of newsgroup, not all of
>USENET). I got this idea because my school uses a news server and a lot
>of valuable information is lost when old messages are erased from the
>server's spool.

One problem you *do* want to think about up-front is how you're going to
query the database.  Full-text searching can be a daunting task.
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