[SWLUG] IRC

Steve Hill steve at nexusuk.org
Fri Mar 31 13:45:56 UTC 2006


On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Huw Lynes wrote:

> A publicly accessible list archive solves this one. Why bother with your
> own search capabilities when you can get google to index it for you?

Because Google's search capabilities frankly suck when compared to 
egrep...  If Google supported regexes then I might agree with you.

> threading etc and is fast.

I'm afraid I don't believe anything web based can ever be as fast as 
running PINE on local data.

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