From owner-freebsd-www Thu Apr 26 15:31:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E77137B424 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3QMUsM64668 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:30:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Delivered-To: jkh@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:31:59 +0200 From: Kim Hendrikse To: jkh@freebsd.org Cc: joerg@freebsd.org, nik@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NexTrieve for FreeBSD Project mailing lists. Message-ID: <20010426143159.A7782@nexial.com> References: <2997.890167928@time.cdrom.com> <199803172116.WAA22792@ns.nexial.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199803172116.WAA22792@ns.nexial.nl>; from kim on Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 10:16:50PM +0100 X-Resent-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 41 Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [resent to www for broader distribution to interested parties] Hi, I've spoken to you before about this subject. i.e. about hosting searchable archives for all your mailing lists. I'm keen on implementing this now. Are you the right person to talk to about this? I'll need to obtain a bunch of historical archives to bootstrap the process. In the meantime we have made lots of progress in R/D on the software. We have improved the fuzzy search algorithm now and included exact search. The user can choose. We have also made software to do load balancing and optimise the indexes. Are you guys still interested in having this done? I do understand that you already have a search engine on all the lists. But we can offer a different approach. Specifically dynamic previews that include the portion of the text that best matches the query, this can help a lot of weeding out the good hits. And indeed, the fuzzyness to reduce the chance of false hits, which happens a lot of complex technical areas. Developments that are currently in the pipeline involve a lot of fancy xml stuff that will allow use to build powerful combinations of searching and browsing threaded lists. In any case, I'm at the stage where I want to get this in the air. Please let me know who to talk to next. I've currently updated most of the mailing lists that we currently have links to to use the next search software here: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/ PS. Do you guys also release binary-only software on your distributions? We will be releasing a free version of the search software soon. We would be keen on getting it on your standard release cdroms. Cheers, Kim Hendrikse --------------------------------------------------------------- Search Holding BV/Nexial Systems. (http://www.nexial.com) E-mail: kim@nexial.com, Tel: +31 475 342 222 Fax: +31 475 324 484 Postbus 62, 6100 AB, Gelrestraat 75, 6101 EV, Echt, The Netherlands GPS Co-ordinates, N 51'06.250" E005'52.097" PGP finger print: ED C7 22 52 3B E5 24 BA 76 46 65 DA A4 0B F4 D1 --------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message