From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 9 18:17:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D2DD16A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF38D43D39 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:17:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.250] (pool-68-161-115-118.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.115.118]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iB9IGgu0087882 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:16:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41B89686.5080302@mac.com> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:16:38 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Von Essen References: <20041209121011.H59426@beck.quonix.net> In-Reply-To: <20041209121011.H59426@beck.quonix.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing list archives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:17:16 -0000 John Von Essen wrote: > A few years ago I remember being able to download (from freebsd ftp > server) mail spool files for the entire years worth of messages for a > given mailing list. I would periodically, download these, parse them with > a perl script and generate a file-based directory structure of all the > message to search on. > > Can you still download these? I was on ftp2.freebsd.org looking around and > I didn't see them anywhere. FreeBSD is now using Mailman for many lists, which keeps an archive at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions.mbox/freebsd-questions.mbox That mbox file is 244MB in size, so I think that is what you are looking for. Otherwise, consider mailing directly with your request.... -- -Chuck