[HP4GU-FAQ] Re: Search Engines (was: DE draftee questions)

[Heidi Tandy]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 4:26PM -0500, abigailnus wrote:
> For that matter, I had an idea a while back, and I'm too much of a
> technosquib in these matters to know if it's completely insane.  What
> would be involved in uploading the HPfGU database somewhere and
> making it truly searchable?  I know that several websites and blogs 
> have
> generic search engines that are Google-powered.  If we could do the
> same thing, we'd be able to search by author, date or message number,
> and really use those boolean search functions.
>
> Does anyone know if this is feasible?  More to the point, would it be 
> in
> violation of copyright?

As long as it wasn't publicly accessable it wouldn't violate copyright 
per the bigfile's license about access to posts for listish purposes.