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Subject: Re: Search engine hooks
From: Nick Simicich <njs @ scifi . squawk . com>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:51:22 -0500
To: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron @ waste . org>
Cc: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903272150531.23802-100000@waste.org>

FreeWAIS seems to do this from mail archives just fine?

At 10:03 PM 3/27/99 -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>I'd like to be able to send a command like this:
>
> search listname "query string"
>
>..and get back a list of messages sent to listname that match. To do this,
>I need a way of hooking in one or two programs. The first, obviously, is a
>the search front-end that takes the listname and the query, calls a search
>engine, and returns some result text.
>
>The second is a hook called for each message archived, which passes the
>necessary information to the search back-end for it to pull it out of the
>archive and add it to the index.
>
>By the way, I've got a cute little full-text search engine module that I'm
>nearly ready to unleash on the world.. 
>
>--
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>
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