VANAGON archives -- August 2008, week 4 (#589)

Date:         Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:30:32 -0400
Reply-To:     Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Subject:      Re: Who is the Manager of this list?
Comments: To: Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
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At 09:57 PM 8/27/2008, Jim Arnott wrote...
>Searches: Agreed that gerry gets swamped searching 14 years of posts.
>Probably 200/day times 14 years.  You do the math. New hardware will
>help, but searches will never be blazing fast. Not with a single box.
>I use the horsepower of the Google farms.  Enter <search string>
>site:gerry.vanagon.com into your Google toolbar.

You (we?) might want to look into mharc/MHonArc (
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/mhonarc/ ) It does a pretty good
job of archiving and searching emails (at least on a recent processor).

Google is good for a first approximation - but for some reason, it
doesn't index all the archives.

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