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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: <GNAT.91Jun4230906@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
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
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bremner@cs.sfu.ca 				          ubc-cs!fornax!bremner
