Subject: Re: re indexing<br/>
Date: Feb 15, 2003 @ 15:27<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 &lt;orc@orcoast.com&gt; (&quot;acroorca2002 &lt;orc@...&gt;&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
<a href="9016.htm">Prev</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Post in Topic&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Next&emsp;[<a href="topic8745.htm">All</a> Posts]<br/>
<a href="9020.htm">Prev</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Post in Time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="9022.htm">Next</a><br/>
<br/><br/>
<div id="ygrps-yiv-289797348">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;anorak222 &lt;listen@w...&gt;&quot; <br/>
&lt;listen@w...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I just found this thread about indexing the archive. Some points:<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; 1. Yahoo is good for what it does, and free. It only lacks a good <br/>
 </span></blockquote>search functin, but it&#39;s nice that they keep the entire history of <br/>
the forum online.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; 2. It would be fairly easy to create an index page with direct <br/>
 </span></blockquote>links to all 9,000ish messages, but not full text search. A day or <br/>
two work.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; 3. Moving to a different standard forum provider might or might not <br/>
 </span></blockquote>give a good search function, but they would not import the old <br/>
messages and files from Yahoo. They would all be lost. You&#39;d perhaps <br/>
have a wonderful search function, but not much content to search in <br/>
any more.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; 4. The ideal solution would be an hand tailored online data base <br/>
 </span></blockquote>which would handle all the messages, the full forum functionality, e-<br/>
mail forwarding, as well as give full text and index search, and <br/>
handle the uploaded files in a separate, well ordered section. The <br/>
old discussions and files could be imported from the Yahoo forum <br/>
initially, so they&#39;d remain intact. This project would technically <br/>
feasible and not really difficult, but a lot of work (couple of <br/>
weeks).<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; Regards<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>thanx for this research anorak<br/>
<br/>
still it boils down to<br/>
who is there to bell the cat<br/>
<br/>
& no problem if it were only a couple of weeks of hard play<br/>
but i cant volunteer nor advocate that anyone else undertake this<br/>
unless there is some very focussed reason & desire for the result<br/>
<br/>
after all <br/>
we do already have a search function<br/>
cockamamie as it is</div>