From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24732 invoked by alias); 7 Feb 2011 22:46:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 24723 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Feb 2011 22:46:10 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_ZM X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtprelay05.ispgateway.de (HELO smtprelay05.ispgateway.de) (80.67.31.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:46:05 +0000 Received: from [87.180.67.50] (helo=stokes.schwinge.homeip.net) by smtprelay05.ispgateway.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1PmZqM-0006hw-7W for overseers@sourceware.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:46:02 +0100 Received: (qmail 18619 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2011 22:45:36 -0000 Received: from kepler.schwinge.homeip.net (192.168.111.7) by stokes.schwinge.homeip.net with QMQP; 7 Feb 2011 22:45:36 -0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 4504 invoked by uid 1000); Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:45:36 -0000 From: Thomas Schwinge To: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Shell access / mailing list mbox archives User-Agent: Notmuch/0.5-33-g665f77b (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: <878vxra2gl.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Df-Sender: thomas@schwinge.name 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: 2011-q1/txt/msg00044.txt.bz2 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1813 Hallo! I'd like to get access to the mbox archives for sourceware.org / gcc.gnu.org mailing list archives. For some years, I've been subscribed to a bunch of these (glibc, gcc, gdb, binutils), first in the course of GNU/Hurd toolchain work, and later for CodeSourcery work, too. Now, I lost a bunch of my archives due to own stupidity -- and didn't preserve most of the messages anyway, as they've been downloadable by anonymous FTP, but are no more, as I had to figure out. (And now, I found the thread starting at , continued at to confirm this.) I very much prefer having the archives locally (and indexed / searchable as I like it), instead of trying to extract what I'm occasionally looking for from the web interface. And no, I'm not going to sell email addresses to spammers, etc. I just had a chat with Ian L. Taylor in #overseers, and it seems that the appropriate way to get hold of the archives is shell access to the sourceware.org machine. An option suggested by Ian was crawling the web list archives by HTTP downloads (for the ``Raw text'' links), and re-constructing the original messages (s%@% at% mangling, etc.) -- but I don't know if that was a serious suggestions; it seems like unreasonable overhead to me (we're talking about ten thousands of messages). Likewise, I could talk to ezmlm to send me back each message; likely even higher overhead. I could use GMANE to export mbox files of gcc-patches starting in 2002, for example. Still, this seems illogical to me to rely on a third party for this. As I don't really want to bother you guys with this request too much, is it possible to simply get shell access to the machine myself? Gr=C3=BC=C3=9Fe, Thomas --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 489 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNUHYKAAoJEGe3hdm9kOiifPoIAKaQh3dXkxWQb2p1TNNxcbua x4D7oOZ2e7Qnjeqjml2C89Hk02P+fg7KO1INJ438hojuFlPMIjmyWYCf6JmP6kEM tyzCkMLUwR3ZL7Xu/vTXiLofp7xhOtIWb0odhGs+fW25M89ZjxwlSZs13BDnyRpk GbhhXhzcJ6MJpLKEU34MCaZ9XBoDGAbKuIXzPFoIBBBNEiyek9szNrU2Cdw9nzaE C3IDXeieKqiez97EAl5MeHmSotL9NVa/demf+jgO+LOfaJcESKgk9qJNAIXD7yIq 2H/BT9K5W+qmpGPE2H/FZwccxc0NZOEEcci/3kB5JR87SZ7J7FL8BbkUb+oty8s= =0H/F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--