Searchable Mail Archives

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Steve Youngs writes:

 > I'm very happy with MHonArc <http://www.mhonarc.org/> for my archiving,
 > which uses Namazu <http://www.namazu.org/> for searching.  There are

Can you search on Message-IDs?  I don't know if anybody else cares (if
so, please speak up, because otherwise I'm going to assume nobody else
does care), but that is a feature that's important to me personally.

 > example archives listed on the MHonArc site, and mine are at...
 > 
 >   <http://www.sxemacs.org/list-archives/html/>

 > It would be a trivial matter for me to host XEmacs list archives as
 > well.  And if anyone can get the old mbox files to me I can have the
 > full archives back up complete with search ability.

OK, guys, what do we want to do with the spam in the two years
immediately preceding the currently available archives?  It may be
over 50% on average; there are some lists (low-traffic) that are 90%
spam (IIRC).

The issue is trying to preserve the internal links from one post to
another, which if we just clean out the spam the MHonArc message URLs
(which are based on order of messages in the archive), the links will
all change.