Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:24:11 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: John Von Essen <john@essenz.com> Subject: Re: mailing list archives Message-ID: <20041209182411.GL2629@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <41B89686.5080302@mac.com> References: <20041209121011.H59426@beck.quonix.net> <41B89686.5080302@mac.com>
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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 <postmaster@freebsd.org> 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
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