From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>
To: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Rotating mailing list archives
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:38:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210114213820.GA31534@cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ydd4kjj8v9b.fsf@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 03:10:08PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote:
>I just noticed that the archive of the gcc-testresults list (and, I
>assume many/all others) hasn't been rotated at the beginning of 2021:
>there's still one common gcc-testresults.mbox file containing all
>messages since the migration in early 2020. The sheer size of the file
>(3.0 GB) makes it increasingly unwieldly to handle; it would be good if
>the archives could be rotated, perhaps in a way that one won't have to
>resync the complete archive at the beginning of 2022 when
>gcc-testresults.mbox is renamed to gcc-testresults-2021.mbox ;-)
AFAIK, mailing lists aren't rotated automatically. Any old date-based
mboxes that you see come from the old ezmlm mailling list software.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-14 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-14 14:10 Rainer Orth
2021-01-14 21:38 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2021-01-14 21:58 ` Rainer Orth
2021-01-15 21:48 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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