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Subject: Re: Really : Is anybody interesting in setting up a CCC Search webpage ?

Author: Andrei Fortuna

Date: 14:39:12 02/08/01

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Hi Tim !

Thanks for the quick reply !

When you read this message the zipped sourcecode of my engine should be already
in your mailbox.

On February 08, 2001 at 16:32:53, Tim Mirabile wrote:

>Hi Andrei,
>
>We will very soon be experimenting with running a WWW/FTP here at the Your Move
>store.  It will be connected via cable, and always on.  Upload speed is capped,
>but it is fairly high, 100 KBytes/second.  It will run Linux and have about 15
>GB of free space, 600 MHz, and 128 MB Ram.  I will store the archives in both
>compressed and uncompressed formats for searching.  It will also frequently
>check for and download new messages and archives.  I was going to write my own
>search, but wouldn't mind taking a look at what you have written.
>
>Regards,
>Tim
>
>On February 08, 2001 at 16:00:25, Andrei Fortuna wrote:
>
>>Since a question that often is posted to this messageboard is :
>>"Is there a way to search CCC archives ?"
>>and the answer is a loud "NO" I've written a program to do exactly this.
>>
>>Now to the crux of the problem : I can't find a machine to run this program. All
>>I need is a linux (or unix) machine permanently connected to Internet. The
>>needed bandwidth shouldn't be very large and CPU consumption should be low
>>according to my guestimates. Memory consumption : about 20 Mb for the search
>>index.
>>
>>And now I ask you, the people who - like myself - find CCC a very useful
>>discussion list : is there a need for a search page of CCC archives ? If the
>>answer is yes, can you help me find a machine to run this ? Do you know someone
>>who could help me with this ?
>>
>>Or perhaps nobody is interested in searching the archives, which the fact that
>>nobody answered my first announcement might suggest. In which case I apologize
>>for taking your time with those posts.



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