On 10 Jul 2002 at 4:07, csswa wrote:

> Ya know, what we really need is for some clever person to write a bot
> that:
>
> 1) connects to Yahoo and retrieves individual messages. e.g.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ib-support/message/1{through to highest
> message}?expand=1
>
> 2) parses the message body html -- your choice of tool (PHP, whatever)
>
> 3) indexes the message header and footer (poster, date, etc.)
>
> 4) indexes the message body contents (words), and stores the original
> page
>
> Now that would be sweet! Before you ask -- no, I'm far to lazy to do
> it... although I do have some time on my hands... hmmmm...
>

I have been thinking of doing something similar but without indexing every word, I
started storing them a couple of months ago, but haven't gotten around to writing a
parser, thinking about using Perl, but I need to learn it first.....


Paul Schmidt, President
Tricat Technologies
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