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Re: QUESTION: PUTTING A SEARCH ENGINE ON OLD LISTSERV LOGS
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Nick Arnett <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:55:21 -0800
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At 12:46 PM 2/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Why search the logs?  Typically you'd search the messages.
>
>You have to search the logs because the messages are contained in (typically)
>weekly or monthly files.  Very few people use the SEPARATE logging option
>(and it isn't supported for the web archive interface anyway).

We can parse out the separate messages.  We do this all the time for
indexing e-mail files.  I'll see if I can't find an hour or two to discover
how difficult -- or easy -- this is for ListServ archives.

Nick
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