[PD] faster Pd archive search

[Lex Ein]

Not in mbox format: they're website archives, and end 2002-08
The 'site' is not easily searchable without a local webserver running 
with a cgi-bin search app.
Not easily convertible back to mbox.
Indexes require rebuilding with makeindex which works in cygwin.

Lex Ein wrote:
> Excellent.
> 
> But the sister files aren't available:
> http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-ot.tgz (404)
> http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-ot.zip (404)
> 
> http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-dev.tgz (404)
> http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-dev.zip (404)
> 
> http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-announce.tgz (404)
> http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-announce.zip (404)
> 
> I think this is why newsgroups are better - incremental
> update, centralized, universally accessible, history maintained,
> locally searchable.
> 
> L
> 
> Norbert Math wrote:
> 
>> actually, you _can_ download the pd-list archive as a block, the 
>> (undocumented ?) links are:
>>
>> http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-list.tgz (9.3MB) and
>> http://iem.at/mailinglists/pd-list.zip (49.MB)
>>
>> (same content, different comnpression)
>>
>> those files should be updated every night.
>>
>> n
>>
>>> Message: 6
>>> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:58:07 -0700
>>> From: Lex Ein <lex_ein at f-m.fm>
>>> To:  pd-list at iem.at
>>> Subject: [PD] faster Pd archive search
>>>
>>> For frustrated Pd list archive searchers:
>>> http://google.com/search?num=50&q=++site%3Aiem.kug.ac.at+iem+pd++
>>>
>>> A good bookmark or linkbar link or whatever your browser uses.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>> - Pd list archive search http://iem.kug.ac.at/mailinglists/pd-list/
>>> is quite slow. For folks as impatient as me, Google is the solution.
>>> - the archive files can't be easily downloaded as a block
>>> - puts search burden on fast distributed machines on a fast backbone.
>>>
>>> Notes:
>>> "+pd" term selects only Pd lists at iem.
>>> "++" puts spaces in the search form. Saves typing.
>>> "+iem" term stops ads in search results.
>>>
>>> Suggestions for other, better search tools are invited.
>>
>>
>>
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