[Fwd: Searching the archives]

Something gobbled this message up...

J.
--
Jerry Han - jhan@idigital.net - http://www.idigital.net/jhan - TBFTGOGGI
"Hear me call across the waves; If I don't come home tonight, I will make it
home someday..."
Paul Gross and Dave Keely - "32 Down on the Robert Mackensie"Tim Jones
wrote:
> May be a a bit of a challenge given their format, but I'm sure

I guess I should answer this, since I think you're talking about my archive
site.  (8-)  (I missed the original question; I guess I should look it
up in the archives.  (8-) )

Anywas: my ISP at home won't let me use cgi scripts; it's a security hole they
don't want to deal with. Personally, I don't blame them; the fairly recent
F00F bug is just the most recent in a bunch of headaches you can get if you
allow even restricted CGI script access.

I compress the files mainly in interests of my disk quota. This way, I can
put the entire thing on-line, and people can download at will.

I guess the question is now: how badly do people want a search engine? If
demand is bad enough, I can try talking my ISP into an exception. Or I can
come up with an auto-index page for the last month worth of
archives (I'm assuming that most people just use the last month worth of
archives.)

I'm also toying with the idea of getting a cable modem, and being net
accessible 24 hours a day. But this is a long range solution; it won't be for
six months, if then.

Finally, somebody who has completely free access to the Net (or is a
SysAdmin, which amounts to the same thing (8-) ), could setup some of
the
auto-archiving products out there.  I can't, unfortunately; I have
dial-up
access at home, and I sit behind a rather behemoth firewall at work.

So, I guess this is the archives review, where you get to hack me to shreds.
(8-)

Thanks,
J.