tarball of mailing list archives

["Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@kleinmann.com>]

It would be extremely useful if the Debian mailing lists, particularly
-devel and -policy) were available as gzipped tarballs for each month's
worth of mail.  Such a service would minimize duplicated threads, and
hours of pouring through archives and/or messing with the search engine, 
which is relatively slow, and lacks the flexibility and power of the numerous 
text-manipulation tools available on a typical developer's workstation.

I notice that the xfree86 development archives are available in that format,
as well as having a WWW interface and a search engine, so this idea has
apparently been found to have some advantages.

Sorry if this is a duplicate thread ;)

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