From owner-freebsd-www Wed Apr 29 06:03:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22677 for www-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 06:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-www) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22672 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 06:03:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA05090; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:02:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:02:33 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: "Adam W. Hawks" cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing list search engine question In-Reply-To: <199804290327.XAA16795@hawks.caro.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Adam W. Hawks wrote: > current week of mail but haven't been able to figure out how > the www.freebsd.org site is indexing the gziped lists. By ungziping them. freewais cannot index compressed files. There is an interesting research oriented system called "mg" that provides an inverted file indexing where both the text and the index are compressed *and* there is a net performance gain in searching. However, it needs another layer of code on top to match the features of freewais. -john