New service: Searchable Jag-Lovers archives on the Web

[Gunnar Helliesen <gunnar@bitcon.no>]

Fellow Jag-Lovers,

At the request of Nick, our list admin, I have accepted the task of
creating a searchable (and browseable) Jag-Lovers archive on the World
Wide Web.

After a lot of work (and little sleep) I now feel the service is ready
for use. It works like this:

On the main menu there are three choices. "Search the old archives"
takes you to a search form where you can enter a query to search all
postings from November 1993 to December 1996.

"Search new archives" takes you to another form where you can enter a
query to search all postings from the beginning of February 1997 and
onwards.

"Browse new archives" takes you to a menu where you can browse all
postings from the beginning of February and onwards. You can list the
postings by date or by thread (subject).

These Web pages are not a substitute for subscribing to the Jag-Lovers
mailing list and are of course only available for reading (posting is
not possible).

To have a look at the searchable archives, open your WWW browser to:
http://www.bitcon.no/jaglovers/

Technical details:

The reason for splitting the search of the old and the new archives is
simply that the old archives are only available as large digest files.
The program I use for indexing the email messages and converting them to
HTML (MHonArc) only understands standard Unix mailbox files and refuses
to index the digests. To make matters worse, the oldest archives (pre
March '95) are only available without proper email headers and are
almost impossible to index with any program without heavy editing. I
finally managed to index them with freeWAIS-sf but I'm working on a
better solution. Anyone who has saved *all* messages from the past (or
for a lengthy period of time) *with all headers*, please get in touch
with me! Note: Don't just send me your entire collection, get in touch
first!

All messages from now on (and from the beginning of February, I had kept
those myself) are automatically converted to HTML and made available for
browsing. I have also installed a program that indexes Web pages and
makes them available for searching (ht://Dig). This program will run
daily indexing all postings from now on.

I'm not quite finished with the pages yet, I have still to write proper
help pages for the different search query syntaxes, but I'll get around
to this as soon as I get some sleep ;-)

Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Gunnar

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Gunnar Helliesen   | Bergen IT Consult AS  | NetBSD/VAX on a uVAX II
Systems Consultant | Bergen, Norway        | '86 Jaguar Sovereign 4.2
gunnar@bitcon.no   | http://www.bitcon.no/ | '73 Mercedes 280 (240D)

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