From: "Michael O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well google seems to work out well enuff for people to find stuff
You'd be surprised. I can't count the number of times someone complains "I
can't find X on google" and I get it on the first page. And those are
simple, unstructured queries.
The namesys.com doc that John pointed to gives a query example like :
type=email from=me to=him contains=[this that other]
When the "file" is saved to the "filesystem" the FS automatically generates
this information in the DB.
You might get some false positives, but nother more than with find over a
if you use maildir format
And for data that doesn't have as simple a format as email? Say a random
word (or even ooo) document? How about a jpeg? Requiring the user to write
some sort of tag or description isn't legal for this challenge- if they
can't remember a filename they won't remember the tags. Plus it would make
things worlds harder for machine generated files.
On top of this- you say this is no worse than maildir, but its no better
either. So the system is no better, more complicated, and really doesn't
fit many types of data. I don't see an advantage in it.
Gabe
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