Re: Suggestions for List Archive

2001-01-30 Thread Ken Murchison
Lawrence Greenfield wrote: > > It appears that searching the body of messages with whitespace is > broken; this is a general bug affecting Cyrus and not just the > archive.* folders on cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu. > > I haven't tracked down the problem yet. See bug #55. This goes back to a big can

Re: Suggestions for List Archive

2001-01-30 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
It appears that searching the body of messages with whitespace is broken; this is a general bug affecting Cyrus and not just the archive.* folders on cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu. I haven't tracked down the problem yet. Larry Date:Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:27:19 -0700 From: Devin Reade <[EMAIL

Re: Suggestions for List Archive

2001-01-30 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:42:13 + From: Ross Golder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] Surely, a searchable web-based front-end isn't that hard to set-up? We've been experimenting with a web-based front-end at http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/ We're not entirely happy with the technology yet

Re: Suggestions for List Archive

2001-01-24 Thread Ross Golder
Devin Reade wrote: > > It's good that this list has been archived, however it its > current form it's not very usable. With over 8000 messages > in one folder, it's not feasible to find something without > using server-side search capabilities, however those seem > to be disabled. (I tried sear

Re: Suggestions for List Archive

2001-01-23 Thread Devin Reade
David Bosso pointed out in private email that the 8000 message folder was likely the uw-imap mailing list, not this one. Yes, the 8000 count was for that list, but this one is close. He also mentioned that his searches were working fine. Curious, I went back and did some further searches. A bi

Re: Suggestions for List Archive

2001-01-23 Thread Jason Fesler
> Don't forget that with the current 8000 message mailbox scheme, > you're talking about 8000 files in one directory. You are almost *barring* the server side search issue.. 8000 messages in one folder's nothing. I regularly have 20,000-30,000 messages, both on a heavy peice of machinary at wo

Re: Suggestions for List Archive

2001-01-23 Thread Michael Fair
Sounds to me like the hashing function could be implemented as a sieve script when mail gets delivered to the mailbox. I have used the web archive at: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/ and it is also difficult to us as an archival search engine. Perhaps breaking it up into years would be helpful