Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:02:33 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "Adam W. Hawks" <root@hawks.caro.net> Cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing list search engine question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429075907.2689B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804290327.XAA16795@hawks.caro.net>
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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
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