[Zope] Could we migrate Zope email to a news group?

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Dougiamas [mailto:martin@dougiamas.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 11:23 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Could we migrate Zope email to a news group?
> 
> 
> Philip Aylesworth wrote:
> > 
> > How about just a good web archive/search for the mailing list?
> 
> I totally agree with this.

As do I, I believe it's the best interface.  The only newsgroup I read
is comp.lang.forth.

> 
> I would much prefer a good web archive with good searching 
> facilities than a newsgroup.  Why should I have to do all the
> searching on a limited client when a server could be so much 
> more powerful?  And in the end I think more we'll get more
> hits from general web search engines than from Dejanews.
> 
> Why not build a Zope-specialised *portal* type thing that 
> provides a single search/browse interface to ALL zope info
> out there on the Net.  It could start with this list, and 
> other things like the docs, FAQ etc could get added later.
> 
> Something like the excellent    http://searchlinux.com/
> and indeed:                     http://www.python.org/search/
> 
> To extend this point a little, I would LOVE to see this concept
> abstracted into a generic Product for Zope.   I'd like to
> help with it myself but I'm way too busy with all the other cool
> things I can develop with Zope!  :-)
> 

It is being abstracted into a Zope Product.  Catalog will provide the
ability to catalog Zope objects and search various indexes in the
Catalog.   It's quite fast, and very slick.  It will be seen soon, we
are polishing it up for Linux Expo.

-Michel

> Cheers,
> Martin
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