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Date:         Fri, 8 May 2009 08:18:34 -0400
Reply-To:     Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Database designer?
In-Reply-To:  <5c80974c0905080508g529b39b4ma8d1207874e6da18@mail.gmail.com>
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and to eliminate duplicate entries, search through a sorted list of email addresses before parsing the full email.

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 08:08, Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@gmail.com> wrote: > also, if everyone put the type of van they have. and where they live > in some sort of standardized sig template, we could do on-the-fly > statistics. > when whomever is doing the stats grabs the email, a little perl script > could parse the email and grab the relevant information, and insert it > into a kd-tree with the following elements: year, model, city, state; > where in this example, year=84, model=GL, city=Baltimore, state=MD. > > /****************************** >  * Baltimore, MD >  * 1984 Vanagon GL >  ******************************/ > > Just a thought~ (and this case would have to be taken care of... two > valid (not in a quoted text block) signatures in one e-mail ~ maybe > grab the last valid found) > > Sudhir Desai > /****************************** >  * Baltimore, MD >  * 1984 Vanagon GL >  ******************************/ >


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