Re: virus: Archives
red_mist (red_mist@portsurfer.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 13 May 1998 23:15:51 +0100
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>No. As I said, it would be done locally, with "GREP" or AWK", after
>downloading
>the archives. This has nothing to do with CGI scripts or remote servers.
Tell me if I'm not understanding you here but I think what you mean is
that everyone downloads the whole archives and uses grep on their own
system. This would be impractical because the archives are probably
quite large by now and I don't think many people would want to download
huge files like that. I think a search engine on the web site would be
a better idea but like I said it would be difficult to format and rate
the sites into a CGI script
>Also,
>used properly, GREP and its ilk /are/ like Web search engines, only much more
>powerful and flexible.
I don't go along with this because I think that all GREP does is return
a list of the documents that had the string you specified in. Search
engiines rate the output in order of which sites best mach your search.
To do a search engine for the archives it would have to be something
like this
>As for a rating scheme, if I understand what you
>mean by
>it, that /would/ require direct perusal. But as I stated in a previous post,
>that wasn't my goal. Am I being obtuse?
It would be good to have both if we were to design something like that
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