Re: tarball of mailing list archives

[joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij)]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:43:33AM -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> 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.

Rather than a month's worth, I'd like an mbox file per day per list.

Cheers,


Joost