Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!fornax!bremner From: bremner@cs.sfu.ca (David Bremner) Subject: Re: Description programs Message-ID: <1991Jun4.173107.4964@cs.sfu.ca> Summary: Full text database of comp.archives archives Keywords: lqtext, comp.archives Reply-To: bremner@cs.sfu.ca (David Bremner) Organization: Simon Fraser University References: Distribution: comp Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1991 17:31:07 GMT In a related vein, I have started keeping bits I grab from comp.archives in a full text database ( Liam Quin's lq-text ). With the compressed file support I hacked in, this takes about the same amount of space as storing an uncompressed copy of the text. I think that something like this could provide a very useful service; like archie's new whatis facility, but more powerful. In case your wondering, I'm not ready to make my database available; primarily I don't have the resources, also, my complete database is only a couple of megabytes; I'm pretty selective. However, with this caveat, I might be interested in helping get something like this set up somewhere. What do people think, is it worth the trouble to be able to type "news reader" and pull up the readmes for a bunch of news readers? David -- bremner@cs.sfu.ca ubc-cs!fornax!bremner