From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 9 18:24:25 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 B7B0016A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:24:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4709643D2F for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:24:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iB9IOB2f015585; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:24:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:24:11 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20041209182411.GL2629@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20041209121011.H59426@beck.quonix.net> <41B89686.5080302@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41B89686.5080302@mac.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: John Von Essen 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 18:24:25 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 09), Chuck Swiger said: > 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.... You can fetch weekly files from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/ , too. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com