On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:48:59PM +0800, Joshua San Juan wrote: > > >From: Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >No. Pipermail doesn't have native search capabilities. > ... > > [cross-posted to the PLUG & Python(ph) mailing list] > > When I got this reply on my query on whether the PLUG > archives has got a search feature - it got me interested, > So I downloaded mailman - then did some 'hacking' > besides it gave me a reason to check out Python :) > and a theory. > > The result is this quick-and-dirty Python script > to provide a search capability to the PLUG archives. > It's my very first program in Python (skipped the > Hello,world part) - and like I said quick-and-dirty. > Read the README on the tarball for more details. > > Why post this? Well, as they say "Release early ..." > Besides, people might be willing to improve or extend > this code or this could be a jump-off point for people > to try a similar thing. The code is being released to > the public domain - do with it what you like. Another > thing is that people could help me test this out on > real mailing lists with archives from different > years,months. Testing was done through 'tests' mailing > lists with 3 subscribers and in one year-month only.
Over on the nlug.org site, we're using hypermail to do the archiving and it works great. Another programmer and I hacked it up so that all email addresses are replaced with an image to thwart spammers. There's an article on the main page about doing it, but it's only part one of two parts. Still, it might make a good start. Hypermail creates fully threaded and searchable archives. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
