From: William R. Knox (wknox@mitre.org)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 14:10:59 CST
It will create output based on the number of seconds from epoch that an
e-mail was sent as obtained elsewhere in hypermail. I figured that, even
though the information was available other places in the HTML, it was
useful to follow a standard for the META tags.
Thanks for the tip about swish.
Bill Knox
Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
The MITRE Corporation
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 21:14:00 -0800 (PST)
> From: Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>
> To: hypermail@hypermail.org
> Subject: Re: [hypermail] New META date tag feature
>
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, William R. Knox wrote:
>
> > I have implemented a new feature in hypermail to include the META Date tag
> > compatible with the Dublin Core standard (which specifies the format
> > YYYY-MM-DD), both by default and as a macro (%D) usable in message header
> > files. This date is useful for search engines, such as the newly released
> > ht://Dig 3.1.6, which make use of this META tag, if it exists, to
> > determine the age of the file instead of the modification date. Given the
> > update that happens to message files when a new message comes in, this
> > seems like a useful patch to implement accurate date-specific searches on
> > your archive.
>
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Does this just rewrite comments such as
>
> <!-- received="Sun Sep 09 16:51:47 2001" -->
>
> as a <meta> tags?
>
> Swish-e can do something similar. Try a search at:
>
> http://search.apache.org/archives/mod_perl-dev/
>
> Swish can parse, search and return meta tags in search results, but in
> this case it's parsing the data from the comments in the hypermail files.
>
>
> --
> Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org
>
>