Re: Mailing list archives

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:06:49PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>On 29/03/12 12:44, Diego Novillo wrote:
>> 
>> I may be misremembering, but I think we used to offer mailing list
>> archives in a tar ball or some other archiving format.
>> 
>> I'm trying to do some offline processing on messages and all I can seem to
>> do is run wget -r, which results in individual messages in html format.
>> 
>> Are there any other options?
>
>I don't think there are any tarballs made automatically. But you should
>find that if you get the "txt" subdirectory of the mailing list instead,
>you get the raw text format versions instead, if that helps.
>
>Also, you can get them with rsync, which may be more convenient and faster
>than wget. e.g. the with rsync module "gcc-ml-archive" for the gcc mailing
>list for March:
>
>rsync -a sourceware.org::gcc-ml-archive/2012-03/txt .

That's a great idea.  Maybe we should put that in a FAQ somewhere.

Remember that if you want to use these files as real mail you'll have to
unobfuscate the mail addresses to s/ dot /./; s/ at /@/ in the header.

cgf