[chbot] multiple chocolate fish challenge (or how to search our archives)

[Mark Atherton]

Oops, you are all correct.

I though we only held the archives in Gzip'd format

The multiple chocolate fish can now be moved to the FPGA challenge.

-mark




At 10:59 p.m. 12/11/2014, you wrote:
>On Wed 12 Nov 2014 22:20:27 NZDT +1300, Mark Atherton wrote:
>
> > A repeating feature request related to email broadcast system (this
> > one)
>
>The technical term for it is "mailing list".
>
> > is the desire to be able to search past postings.
>
>No, don't write software for that. Either such software already exists,
>or it doesn't exist because it's not needed. In the past (mailing lists
>have been common for well over 20 years) the answer has been to use your
>favourite search engine with the "site:" qualifier, as Peter mentioned.
>You can easily put a search input field on any web page that adds the
>"site:" part automatically, no programming required, just 3 lines of html.
>
>Alternatively, file all your mailing list emails into a separate folder,
>each list you are subscribed to into their own (you do that anyway,
>don't you?). Then use your favourite tool to do a text search on your
>hard disk's location where the folder is stored. No special tools
>required.
>
>Volker