[htdig] Extend htdig to display additional Mailman fields

[Mark A. <man...@dk...>]

Hello,

I have successfully extended the Mailman list manager to use 
htdig/htsearch to search the pipermail archives produced by Mailman.
Htdig builds it's own set of database files which are searced by htsearch.

I would like the output of htsearch to include the author of each 
message. Currently, it displays the name of the the Mailman
list and the subject of the message found by htsearch, both preceded by 
some number of stars, indicating the popularity of each message
found by htsearch.

The author of each message is embedded in the Thread/Subject/Author/Date 
html files produced by the Mailman pipermail script, but the
author information is not propagated to the htdig databaxes besides 
possibly being included in the Excerpt section of each htdig database 
record.

Has anyone tried or successfully extended htdig/htsearch to include the 
author of each HTML/message file it finds during it's digging?

Thanks