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Patrick Douglas Crispen <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 06:23:19 -0500
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I own and moderate the Advanced HTML list at UA1VM.  I now have about 2
years of archive logs on UA1VM, and I am interested in:

     1. Moving a copy of the old logs to a new server (netsquirrel.com)
        although the list will continue to operate on UA1VM.

     2. Modifying the logs on the new server so that it only includes
        those e-mail letters with certain "topic" keywords in the
        subject lines (in other words, I want the new archive to
        include e-mail letters whose subject lines begin with
        SUMMARY, INFO, or COMMENT but exclude those e-mail letters that
        begin with QUESTON or ADMIN ... oh, and _all_ ADV-HTML posts
        have one of those five words at the beginning of their subject
        lines).

     3. Slapping a high-quality search engine on the logs that will
        be smart enough to parse the logs and return individual posts
        (in other words, if I search for "Dynamic HTML" I don't want
        the return to be the entire log but instead the individual
        email(s) in that log that best match my search term).

     4. "Subscribing" the new server to ADV-HTML so that the remote
        server's archive will automatically update as each new letter
        is sent to the list.

I can handle the first and fourth steps pretty easily (I just need to FTP
the logs to netsquirrel.com, and "subscribing" the archive server is just a
matter of an ADD).  The second and third steps are stumping me, though.

So, I guess my questions are:

     1) How do I parse out the "QUESTION" and "ADMIN" posts from
        the logs that I am going to put on the new server?

     2) Which search engine should I use (I've used MHonArc in the
        past, but I don't think it had search capabilities then)?

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