From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19910 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2007 13:21:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 19902 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Sep 2007 13:21:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-174-251-188.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.174.251.188) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:21:56 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 3A16613C304; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:21:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:21:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: remove mail-archives from ftp? Message-ID: <20070925132154.GB11922@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: overseers@sourceware.org References: <20070925024722.GA31521@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20070925025603.GA4172@caradoc.them.org> <20070925043724.GA11922@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q3/txt/msg00121.txt.bz2 On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:54:39AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: >On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:56:03PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >>>On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:47:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>>Are there any objections to my removing these archives and shutting >>>>down the automatic copying to the ftp area? I think this practice has >>>>probably outlived its usefulness in this spam-filled era. >>> >>>For whatever it's worth, I use these every couple of months. It would >>>be nice if they were still readable from a sourceware shell at least. >> >>Shell users can access the qmail archives at /qmail/lists-*. Would >>that be sufficient for your needs? > >There are parts of some lists' archives in the ftp archives that aren't >in the qmail archives - in particular gcc messages 1-24899, gcc-help >1-4299, gcc-patches 1-25999 appear to have been removed from the qmail >archives at some point. Yes. This is a FAQ or at least a "Frequently Made Observation". IIRC, the loss was due to a disk crash. However, no one has cared enough to reproduce the html archives. I can just move the ftp archives elsewhere and turn off their automatic creation. Then if some theoretical interested gcc person wants to reproduce them in the web archives. Or, you could get the archives from Angela. cgf