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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.