Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:20 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [alexeijh@westnet.com.au]
> > It would be really handy to have archives of the debian mailing lists
> > available as mbox archives.
>
> The correct solution, until someone gets around to exporting the
> mboxes, is to talk/grumble/whine about wanting the archive for some
> specific month and list, where developers can hear you. (IRC works, a
> mailing list might work.) Eventually someone will scp the relevant
> file and send it to you in some way, or give you shell access to a box
> with the archives so you can run a MUA right there. This might not be
> official procedure, but I've seen it work more than once. I rather
> doubt it would work for debian-private.
The reason it hasn't been done so far is not related to any technical
problem. There seems to be just as many people who do not want the
mboxes to be available as people who do. Since most of the list archive
team does seem to care a huge amount about that topic, nothing has been
done.
Cheers,
Pasc (with his listarchives maintainer hat on)
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