Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:55 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Pascal Hakim]
> > 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.
>
> Do these same people object to web archives of the lists? I'm curious,
Some do.
> because I don't really see a qualitative difference. The headers
It's easier to script through mboxes than through web archives.
> retained by an mbox but not exposed to the web don't seem all that
> objectionable, especially since the web archives don't munge email
> addresses.
They might one day. It's possible to restrict http://lists.debian.org to
stop or slow down people leeching across the web archives.
> I suppose it'd be necessary for the exported mboxes to honor the
> No-External-Archive: yes and so forth, which might not be the case
> today (I've never gained access to them so I don't know).
>
I actually have no idea whether we honour that already or not.
Pasc
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