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Matthias Leisi <matthias@astrum.ch> wrote:
> The display of search results is somewhat irritating - I would
> omit References: and Message-ID: from the display and use a
> simple tabular rather than <li>'s. 

Well, unordered list was chosen because it offers the widest compatibility.
Some WWW clients do not implement tables (lynx). I personally use
currently only w3m and Konqueror/2.1, but ...

References: display gives the information on the profoundness of this
reply. A threaded view would probably be much better. Message-ID: is the
way to get the message body when in short mode.

Of course it's a bit unobvious that you have to select, in short mode,
the Message-ID: to get the message body, and that the Subject: does
a search on the subject, but well, it makes everything compact without
the use of graphic links.

> How far does the archive reach back?

About a year for ch.*, fr.*, linux-kernel, a bit more though. I also
archive other newsgroups but the volume is quite big, maybe later.

If someone wants to send me more on CD, DAT/DDS, Exabytes or FTP,
I would gladly accept it.

> Overall, it's a nice tool :-)

Will be released as GNU GPL as soon as I have fixed the latest details.
Then if you want you will be able to contribute not only ideas, but
also code :)

It is a set of Perl/sh scripts:

schaefer@defian:~/work/NF/diverse/search_engine% wc -l *.pl *.pm *.cgi scripts/*.sh
     82 compact.pl
    305 index.pl
    114 rnews_to_mail_filter.pl
    143 search.pl
     82 text_to_db.pl
    841 search.pm
    427 search.cgi
     54 scripts/do.sh
     58 scripts/enforce_size_extract_multiple.sh
     68 scripts/enforce_size_extract_multiple_news.sh
   2174 total

Don't hesitate to subscribe to the search-engine-request@alphanet.ch, it's
quite low volume.