Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:38:34PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote:
> 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.
Debian developers can already access the mbox on master.d.o, so this is
only an issue for non-DD which might explain the mixed reaction here
(I am in favor of public mbox, if that matter.).
As far as spam harvester are concerned, they can just subscribe to the
mailing-lists to get the mail headers.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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