On Sat, 2 Oct 1999 8:14:34 +0200
   "Simeon ben Nevel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Simeon,
> I manage a number of mailing lists where people contribute an enormous 
> amount of useful information.  Unhappily, due to space limitations at my 
> web-host, I can only keep the most recent 3 or 4 months of messages on-
> line.   
> 
> Since I have kept (off-site) virtually every messages since the list 
> began, I plan on building an archive on my Linux box and burning the whole 
> thing to a CD-Rom.   
> 
> The problem is that I wouldn't be able use use a regular cgi-bin based 
> search engine (like Wilma/Glimpse or MarcSearch) against the archives on 
> the CD-Rom.   

I know of two java based search engines, but I have not tested them 
yet. They are documented in german, but maybe you can do a little 
research on it.

> 
> I have since realized that a Java based applet would fill the bill.   

These local search engines are based on java script.

> Unhappily, an extensive search has shown that the available 
> (commercial/share/free-ware) engines either don't serve my needs or are 
> prohibitively expensive (especially as I might be providing copies of the 
> archive to 100's of people).     

I asume that at lease one of these search engines is free since it 
was included in a german PGP manual.

[...]
> If you'd be interested in helping support(fund) and/or develop  
> specifications for a MHonArc-specific Java based search engine please drop 
> me a note.  If there is sufficient interest, I'll set up a mailing list at 
> one of the freebie hosting services where we can hash things out.  
> 
> If you think I'm entirely out in left field, forgive the intrusion, but
> please *do* drop me a note and tell me why you think this wouldn't work.
> 
> I look forward to hearing from interested parties.  

Here is the contact information needed:

S@lz&amp;Pfeffer-Leicht (S@lt & Pepper-light)
    <URL:http://oase-shareware.org/salz>
Copyright (c) 1997-98 bei Rainer Eschen

ORGANON - A free Offline Search Engine
    <URL:http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/philsem/stefan_mueller/index.html>
by Stefan R. Mueller, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Maybe you can find something there on that issue.

I may assist to contact those people since my german seems to be 
better than my english which of course is natural for a native 
speaker <grin>.


With best compliments

           Peter Seitz
-- 

  Graz University of Technology, Austria - Fac. f. Civil Engineering
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