Re: [Pan-users] Statistical word analysis?

[Aristotle]

Thanks for providing a helpful answer (give me a break people - I am new
to this - I thought we are supposed to be a community).

I have no programming experience although I know someone is willing to
teach me - I was always thinking of a modular plug in anyhow.  Does
anyone know of a related application on freshmeat / sourceforge related
to this?  Perhaps some source code can be adapted as a plug in?

As for the issue of downloading all the newsgroup bodies - I could not
give a flying f*#k - it is what my modem is there for.  What's it going
to do anyhow?  Clog up net bandwidth?  Get real.

I will start searching the application archives.

On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 01:05, Charles Kerr wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:16:02AM +1200, mdew wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 00:39, Jason Wojciechowski wrote:
> > 
> >> Or at the very least a job for a tool that specifically does analysis of
> >> these things.  Dropping something like this in Pan for the ~10 people
> >> who might ever use it seems a waste of the developers time and efforts.
> > 
> > The idea has its merits... Yes it would be handy feature, more of an
> > extendable search, nothing too big.
> > 
> >> Remember UNIX - specific tool for a specific job.
> > 
> > Thats old-school Unix thinking, we "evolving" now...
> 
> Regarding the word analysis question: one would have to download all
> the article bodies for all the groups being looked at before Pan could
> do an analysis.  While this isn't a bad idea, it scores poorly anyway
> because it would be a lot of work for something that not many users
> will use.
> 
> Regarding one-tool-for-one-job: "Evolution" is a good example of the
> GUI-level extension of this.  Evolution is a number of separate tools
> that interoperate well, rather than a single monolithic app (like Pan ;)
> 
> If someone wants to contribute a word-count plugin to Pan, I'll put it
> up on the home page.  I've been thinking of doing something like this
> for libesmtp and gpg support too.
> 
> Though that's for _after_ 0.11.3 and 0.12.0. ;)
> 
> cheers,
> Charles
> 
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