[ic] mail archive search broken?

[Ryan Hertz]

>Mike Heins <mheins@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Quoting Rene Hertell (rene@hertell.com):
> > > > It is working, though with week-old messages only. Ht::Dig barfed
> > > > again....
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it be better to change Ht::dig to some other search-engine?
> >
> > Suggestions? We have looked at a bunch, and found none that would be
> > worth the work. The simple ones either don't have relevance ranking or
> > won't perform on multi-hundred megabyte data sizes, and the complicated
> > ones are days of work to set up.

Try: http://www.xav.com/scripts/search/

It may not scale large enough, but I think the advanced searching would 
please the masses.  And it is, of course, written in Perl.

-Ryan