Quoting Jason Hunter <jhun...@acm.org>:

If you say so--- although I'm really quite amused that the there could be 60 GB of text in their lists..

When I index mail I don't bother. Why parse and tag mail to then parse it as XML when one can parse it directly (which makes also a lot of sense given the observation that mail contains overlapping context structures such as lines and sentences) into the "internal" structures that one is using anyway (especially given that one wants to see the mail as given, noting the use of physical position to convey meaning as-if ee.cummings)?

There is, of course, the context of one message within the larger context but that too is a more complex. One thread may be a part of another thread and bits split-off going partially to completely off-topic to being again a part of a topic with some other grand siblings.. Part of IR should distinguish between announced part of threads (declaring with MESSAGE-ID and References or even subject content) and information threads. Even declared threads overlap.

Do you index it in one big lump or is it segmented?

-- E. Zimmermann, BSn/Munich R&D Unit Leopoldstrasse 53-55, D-80802 Munich, Federal Republic of Germany http://www.nonmonotonic.net

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