Re: Download mail archives?...

[Johnny Ernst Nielsen <j.e.nielsen@e-box.dk>]

God day Brian, and thank you for your answer.

> > how do I download the mail archives for offline reading?
> >
> > I am doing some research where I need to search the lists a lot,
> > and I do not want to do that online.
> >
> > I need all the years from a number of lists, but only the oldest
> > years are gzipped and easy to dowlnoad. The rest seems
> > accessible only through the web interface on Debians web pages.
>
> Well, you could use a tool like w3mir to locally mirror all of say
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/

I also just found a program called wget.
I will look at w3mir and wget.

> However, I'm surprised no one has made up Debian packages of the
> mailing list archives.  It seems like something useful...

Obviously noone has needed to be able to read the mailing list 
archives offline yet.

Thank you again for your help.

Best regards
Johnny Ernst Nielsen :o)


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