From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Dec 26 21:14:46 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA02387 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 21:14:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from revelstone.jvm.com (revelstone.jvm.com [207.98.213.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA02379 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 21:14:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from freyes.dh.i-2000.com (slip166-72-219-100.ny.us.ibm.net [166.72.219.100]) by revelstone.jvm.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA18257; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 00:14:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199612270514.AAA18257@revelstone.jvm.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD doc Mailing list" , "John Fieber" Date: Fri, 27 Dec 96 00:13:31 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.53 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: mailing list archives Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 26 Dec 1996 22:50:06 -0500 (EST), John Fieber wrote: Moved to docs. >For indexing purposes, the only benefit to breaking things up >into chunks is fore convenient addition of new material without >re-indexing everything from scratch (as is curretly done). The >size of the chunks depends entirely on the desired update >frequency. A month is too long. Weekly or daily would be >better. Individual messages would be absurd. I offered Jordan to work on this and have already started getting code (got a red-black-tree source, but I think I will write my) and what I was thinking was to have something that could be updated daily. I was considering either by going directly to the messages once a day. Another possibility is to keep a pointer file of the archives so when the program is run again it would continue from where it left off. I have not started to think about it in detail, but I think I will write up a plan for this weekend to get some feedback. The next week an a half are going to be more busy than normal (parents are visiting, I am moving, have two consulting jobs to finish, etc.) so after that I will get busy with this project. At the mean time I am going to start (slowly) with writing my own red-black-tree library to use in this project (always looking for an excuse to play with C++) :-)