mailxplorer

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   by mailxplorer 8y ago

   January the 17th. Vaguely relevant though, even now.
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   by mailxplorer 8y ago

   To me, Ted Nelson's Zigzag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag_(software) - is a similiar view to Neuromancer's virtual reality. It's a shame it's not more popular. Gzz is an excellent version of i
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   by mailxplorer 8y ago

   TBL is worth over $50 million.
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   by mailxplorer 8y ago

   From what I can gather, I downloaded one tenth of Usenet - 11,000 groups. This means if I'd done all 110,000 groups it would have taken me about a year to download them, and an 8TB drive to store them (in 2013!). That wasn't reall
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   by mailxplorer 8y ago

   Clucene was way too slow for body text, more than 1GB. I had my own header parser in C++ (though you can do that in Python easily). I'm trying again on that 800GB with KISS DB (append-only hashtable), and Elasticsearch. Doesn't ma
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   by mailxplorer 8y ago

   It's my fault (not the IA), I thought I'd got all newsgroups but must have missed some. I just checked the main newsgroup list and it's incomplete, for some reason. My plan though, is to dust off the old code, get a complete
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   Newsgroups and the Internet Archive: I Made a Difference(screengod.blogspot.com)

   162 points by mailxplorer 8y ago|61 comments
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   Show HN: Launch of MailXplorer for Finding and Searching Old Emails(sanfransys.com)

   1 points by mailxplorer 9y ago|0 comments