Re: desperately looking for a news searcher

Reinier Post (reinpost@win.tue.nl)
Thu, 4 Jul 1996 20:35:54 +0200 (MET DST)

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>I am looking for a "robot" which will index our (intranet) news
>server (for a particular newsgroup) and given a string would
>find the articles containing it.

This looks like a job for Harvest ... we have indexed newsgroups with
WAIS, Swish, and Harvest, all with satisfactory results. Swish has the
additional benefit of producing relatively small index files.

You probably want to index off the file system, rather than to use a robot.

>The solution that I have for the moment is to "adapt" the fish-searcher
>to accept news prefixes.

Ugh :-)

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