[wplug] Troubleshooting db?

[Douglas Green]

Hey all-

Well, I just wasted about 1.5 hours cursing at my new Debian installation 
because my network simply wouldn't work (and it was working yesterday). I 
tried EVERYTHING, re-read every man page, how-to, etc... Then I realized that 
my ethernet cable wasn't plugged in... ooops. OK, Debian is (once again) in 
my good graces. :)

I have occasionally browsed the mail archives looking for specific topics, 
but it's hard to find what I'm looking for mainly because it's organized by 
date rather than subject. I was thinking that it would be really cool if 
selected emails could be sorted by thread and then grouped into some 
categories like "networking" "email" "dri" "top 20 common mistakes" etc when 
they are archived. Sometimes the "plain english" answers from our own mailing 
list are more coherent than the docs/how-to's, and I think they could be a 
useful resource for future browsing. 

This sounded like a cool idea to me, but what is required to do that? Would 
it me a major pain in the butt, and does anyone else think it would be 
worthwhile?

Thanks
Doug


ps- "apt-get install".... I'm addicted!