and to eliminate duplicate entries, search through a sorted list of
email addresses before parsing the full email.

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 08:08, Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@gmail.com> wrote:
> also, if everyone put the type of van they have. and where they live
> in some sort of standardized sig template, we could do on-the-fly
> statistics.
> when whomever is doing the stats grabs the email, a little perl script
> could parse the email and grab the relevant information, and insert it
> into a kd-tree with the following elements: year, model, city, state;
> where in this example, year=84, model=GL, city=Baltimore, state=MD.
>
> /******************************
>  * Baltimore, MD
>  * 1984 Vanagon GL
>  ******************************/
>
> Just a thought~ (and this case would have to be taken care of... two
> valid (not in a quoted text block) signatures in one e-mail ~ maybe
> grab the last valid found)
>
> Sudhir Desai
> /******************************
>  * Baltimore, MD
>  * 1984 Vanagon GL
>  ******************************/
>