lost spool

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Katsuhiro Kondou wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209131625270.20826-100000 at puck.litech.org>,
> 	"Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> wrote;
> 
> } - write a bit of Perl to patch up the Xref in each file, from overview data
> 
> The most hard part, I guess, is how to find overview data
> from retrieved articles.  It should be by Message-ID in
> articles, but the search would be linear in the overview
> and it would take much time to finish if there are large
> amount of overview data.  And furthermore, there is no
> general method in overview api to retrieve whole data,
> like SMnext.

Right.  I had thought either:
- leave the server running despite having no articles, and
  use Xhdr (I think this works)
- preprocess the overview so that it's indexed by Message-ID



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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org