Re: [Texmacs-dev] Searching the mailing list archives

[Igor V. Kovalenko]

> One problem is that I know no good tool to search the mailing list
> archives. Currently, when I want to retrieve some mail I use a Python
> script to produce a mbox containing relevant threads from my personal
> archives. That is far from ideal since direct hit are not
> differentiated from indirect hits (other messages of the thread).
>
> Also, it must be considered that interesting threads may span several
> archive mbox (users, dev, private mail).
>
> One good thing to do for the future might be to add some special
> markup when one posts a message which he consider can be of lasting
> interest. For example there could be something like a keyword line
> looking like.
>

You can't be sure one won't abuse the feature. And this list is unmoderated 
AFAIK.

> [keywords: search mailing list archive]
> for this specific mail
>
> [keywords: axiom CAS interface literate programming lp pamphlet]
> for plans about Axiom
>
> Another problem is that some mails may appear interesting in
> retrospect, and conversely, threads should not always be retrieved
> completely. So there might be a use for additional annotation, and
> even for external annotation. But I have no idea how that should be
> done.
>
> Any idea?

No automation I know of.

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Igor V. Kovalenko    mailto: iko at crec dot mipt dot ru