In my work I used Filemaker Pro with more messages than you are working with. It required some programmers writing programs to get the headers in a consistent order so they could get into consistent fields, and it didn't do content analysis for me, so it may not be feasible for your needs, but the ability to search for the occurrence of particular terms or posters or subject lines and what not was quite good.
A few people asked me to share the answers to my question on newsgroup analysis, so here they go (although these are more questions than answers):
1. Several people shared links to Network analysis software, I have used this software for email but I still have to find an useful way to use it on newsgroups because most of the postings are to the group as a whole.
2. Off-the-shelf qualitative data analysis: great but all of the packages from Sage can't work with more than 500 records (unless you are willing to wait 20 min to rename a document). I have 3000 (which is small as far as newsgroups go)
Any suggestions
Joao
_______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l