[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       listar-dev
Subject:    [listar-dev] Re: Pre-processing incoming mail?
From:       Jeremy Blackman <loki () maison-otaku ! net>
Date:       1999-07-21 19:18:54
[Download RAW message or body]

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Nick Arnett wrote:

> >Ok, this actually strikes me as a useful feature, I'll grant.  I can see
> >uses for this for other things.  If I added a 'markup' module that could
> >take certain words (allowing for a certain number of mispellings) and
> >create links to them, would that be of use to anyone other than Nick?
> 
> Sounds like it might not be useful to me... if you're saying that it would 
> be dependent on a known vocabulary.  There are tens of thousands of terms 
> that might arise, so it'll be much, much faster to use the message body's 
> words as search terms against the encyclopedia(s), ignoring stop words.

I was thinking it'd have a user-definable database of terms. :)

But yes, I realize this is brainstorming.  I'm just sort of brainstorming
back. ;)

--Loki
  loki@maison-otaku.net / jeremy@lith.com / loki@lithtech.com

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]