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From: mkgray@athena.mit.edu
Message-id: <9308191304.AA21915@podge.MIT.EDU>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: WWW-Talk Index
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 09:04:56 EDT
Status: RO

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

<a href="http://opus.mit.edu:8001/talkindex">The index</a> 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