Re: Frankenstein

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 01:50:22PM -0700, Lee Passey wrote:
> On 11/28/2012 1:15 PM, Al Haines wrote:
> 
> >>>On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:38:23AM -0700, Lee Passey wrote:
> 
> >>This is great information. Can the list be made searchable,
> >>so if I have
> >>only the e-text number I can find the associated posting (or
> >>reposting)  message?
> 
> >Posting notes are archived by month/year.  They're ordered by the date
> >in which they were sent by the WWers, which is more or less in numerical
> >order.  There are two exceptions: when etext numbers are reserved for
> >future use and when an old, pre10K, etext is reposted.
> >
> >When a pre10K etext is reposted, its repost note appears in the month in
> >which the reposting WWer sent the repost note.
> >
> >Reservations occur when numbers are prerequested, usually by DP, for a
> >multi-volume set with cross-links.  Such reserved numbers may not
> >actually get used/posted for some time, i.e. they might be requested in
> >June, but not actually be submitted/posted until several months later,
> >depending on how long it takes to post-process the various volumes of
> >the set.  Posting notes for reserved numbers will appear in the month of
> >posting, not the month of request.
> 
> A beautiful example of a non sequitur. The question was not "how is
> the list archive structured?" the question was "can it be made
> searchable so messages involving a specific e-text number can be
> found?" Of course I can download the zip file for every month of
> each of the past 3 years (apparently the limit of the archive),
> extract each file from the gzip/tar, and then grep for the number,
> but a web-based interface would be more user friendly.

We're using the packaged version of Mailman mailing list software,
as delivered by Ubuntu Linux.  This doesn't include a search
capability.  You don't need to download the monthly gzip'd text,
though.  Since they're mostly in order, as Al mentioned, you can
just take a few guesses to narrow in (sort of a binary search).

I remember there were some plugins to Mailman that would make
lists searchable, but don't recall their names to look for them.
If anyone else remembers, I could take a stab at adding a search
functionality.

It might be that some of the mailing lists meta-archivers have
a searchable interface, but I couldn't find one just now.

All that said: if you are just looking for "who posted this, and
when," feel free to ask me, or email pgww-4LCm/o+qPMZ96Xl/[email protected], and I can
dig it up from my archives.  

  -- Greg

_______________________________________________
gutvol-d mailing list
gutvol-d-4LCm/o+qPMZ96Xl/[email protected]
http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d