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From: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm)
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In article <199612231911.LAA16876@freefall.freebsd.org>,
	jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) writes:
> J Wunsch wrote:
>> 
>> As a compromise (until we've got your database): what about daily
>> archives?  Even for the most bloat^H^H^H^H^Hpopulated lists, they are
>> not more than a few hundred KB per day.  This should be small enough
>> to make it still manageable.
> 
> 	can we use glimpse?  (did not follow the recent thread)
> 	i can break the archives into daily files (hackers-19961223)
> 
> 	how large are glimpse index fiels (or what ever they use)

If the way exmh used it to do fast searches on it's one-message-per-file
folder system is any guide, it's between 5 and 10% of the original size.

If you want to see something that I like (so far), have a look at:
http://www.cineca.it/proxy/search/

It uses something called "swish" to do the searching from what I can see in
the html source, and hypermail to manage it.

This may be fine for www access, but I don't know if it's useful at all in
text mode.

> jmb

-Peter