[BangPypers] Idea

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
<abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Harish Krishnan <bugsy.seigel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  >
>  > On 07-Mar-08, at 4:57 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
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>  >  1. Automate blog posting backend when a mail which seems to mention a new
>  >  job posting is posted. This can be done bye requiring specific keyword(s)
>  > in
>  >  the subject for job postings such as [JOB]. I am not sure, but mailman
>  > might
>  >  allow such customizations in the backend.
>  >
>  > Sounds like a nice idea. It would also be good if we have a policy for not
>  > posting jobs directly on the mailing list else it will lead to duplication.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  2. An incremental crawler (always!) which monitors the group for postings
>  > and
>  >  automatically fetches JOB posting posts (similar approach, use keywords or
>  >  naive bayesian classification!) and post it to a specific blog.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > This is even better. what does it take for this to work?
>  >
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>  Nothing much. Just give me half a day to create a custom crawler for this
>  on top of HarvestMan :)
Ok, this is not posturing :) If someone can register an appropriate blog and
send me the URL and the auth credentials I will create the "job
posting crawler".
Only that someone has to bear the responsibility of running it on
a frequent basis.

gnuyoga, can you do this ? It would be a nice exercise to write a custom
crawler for this...
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>  > Harish
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Thanks

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-Anand