Subject: Re: re indexing<br/>
Date: Feb 14, 2003 @ 17:14<br/>
Author: anorak222 &lt;listen@wschwanke.de&gt; (&quot;anorak222 &lt;listen@...&gt;&quot; &lt;listen@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2077142514">I just found this thread about indexing the archive. Some points:<br/>
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1. Yahoo is good for what it does, and free. It only lacks a good search functin, but it&#39;s nice that they keep the entire history of the forum online.<br/>
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2. It would be fairly easy to create an index page with direct links to all 9,000ish messages, but not full text search. A day or two work.<br/>
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3. Moving to a different standard forum provider might or might not give a good search function, but they would not import the old messages and files from Yahoo. They would all be lost. You&#39;d perhaps have a wonderful search function, but not much content to search in any more.<br/>
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4. The ideal solution would be an hand tailored online data base which would handle all the messages, the full forum functionality, e-mail forwarding, as well as give full text and index search, and handle the uploaded files in a separate, well ordered section. The old discussions and files could be imported from the Yahoo forum initially, so they&#39;d remain intact. This project would technically feasible and not really difficult, but a lot of work (couple of weeks).<br/>
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Regards</div>