Index of www-talk

From: mkgray@athena.mit.edu
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: WWW-Talk Index
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 09:04:56 EDT

A while ago I said I would do this, and I've finally gotten around to doing
an initial implementation.

The index is very simple
minded and will probably remain that way.  The search string will search the
last 100 messages to www-talk and present them in a list.  If you want to
search more or less than 100 messages, make the last space separated word
of your search the number of messages you want to search.  That is:

sgml		/* search last 100 transactions for 'sgml' */
sgml 50		/* search last 50 transactions for 'sgml' */

There is one problem with this index.  It is slow.  It's really slow.
Pretty much, there's nothing I can do about it because the software that I
built it on top of is where the slowness comes from.  If I come up with a
better solution, I'll get to it.

Unfortunately, the index also gets bitten by the conversion of spaces to
'+'s.  For example, a search of html+ will yeild the same as a search of
html because I just translate all +'s into spaces.

The opus.mit.edu location is temporary, so in the future, you will want to use
www.mit.edu:8001, but we are in the middle of moving services from one
one machine to another.  Hopefully the switch over will take place in about
a week.

Any problems should be sent to webmaster@athena.mit.edu.  Enjoy.

					Matthew Gray
					mkgray@athena.mit.edu
					webmaster@athena.mit.edu