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- From: boone@convex.cl.msu.edu (Dennis Boone)
- Newsgroups: alt.gopher
- Subject: Re: index for all of gopherspace
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.201122.17017@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 20:11:22 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.163746.974@nstn.ns.ca> <1992Jul27.180509.27470@mercury.unt.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul27.180509.27470@mercury.unt.edu> billy@sol.acs.unt.edu (Billy Barron - VAX/UNIX Systems Manager) writes:
- >daniel@nstn.ns.ca (Daniel MacKay) writes:
- >
- >>Now, the WAIS thang works because all the people who run WAISs, have sent
- >>in to the mother of all WAISs, an abstract for each database they've
- >>published.
- >>
- >Not all. I've found quite a few WAISs that are NOT in the master directory.
- >This also is the biggest problem with WAIS. The directory is flat and getting
- >too big.
-
- Use WAIS as a filter: search the directory of sources for databases with
- appropriate keywords. Then search the resulting sources for the stuff you're
- interested in. I suspect that some of the clients make this more difficult
- than it should be, considering the basic need for this functionality.
-
- Dennis Boone
- Michigan State
- --
- == Frustration is portable. ==
-