From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12201 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2011 21:01:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 12193 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Apr 2011 21:01:18 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_ZM X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtprelay02.ispgateway.de (HELO smtprelay02.ispgateway.de) (80.67.31.29) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:01:12 +0000 Received: from [87.180.46.133] (helo=stokes.schwinge.homeip.net) by smtprelay02.ispgateway.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5lSw-00031L-JD for overseers@sourceware.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:01:10 +0200 Received: (qmail 10232 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2011 21:01:02 -0000 Received: from kepler.schwinge.homeip.net (192.168.111.7) by stokes.schwinge.homeip.net with QMQP; 1 Apr 2011 21:01:02 -0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 14259 invoked by uid 1000); Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:01:02 -0000 From: Thomas Schwinge To: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Shell access / mailing list mbox archives In-Reply-To: <878vxra2gl.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net> References: <878vxra2gl.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.5-77-g335dd52 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87aag9u1o3.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-q2/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 2445 Hallo! On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:45:30 +0100, I wrote: > I'd like to get access to the mbox archives for sourceware.org / > gcc.gnu.org mailing list archives. No answer, so I take it this is not admissible. To get what I'd like, I shall have to write some scripting hackery for interfacing with ezmlm by email -- luckily this is ezmlm-idx, which allows for obtaining for ``a maximum of 100 [messages] per request''. Yet, given the list archives' sizes, this will be some thousand request / answer emails, several hundred MiB worth of data to transfer; to which timeframe should I spread my requests to not needlessly stress the poor sourceware.org machine? > 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.) >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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). >=20 > Likewise, I could talk to ezmlm to send me back each message; likely even > higher overhead. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNlj0MAAoJEGe3hdm9kOiio5sIAIoRl73mG9n75C9xOfmiiskH YlDlI+Ltmi+ORppO+FuJ2OmIUOaYt9hOIXOeoCSpGomaU7fzGmRaWe/aPmTCWyby AUFhC1pzhxgMu5tbHYRCJHVroBi0hMg3ofTx5aO2qNjBXVv43dxtthFxrk7C2Zty FVkH8J9NKYrceOdzBdI/16/B9M0sKo+MBn8hhiLCFuTJT6ZD6rNZ+edug1bTNxHu bqeJOFn3v6FBF6IV6CRj+Yo/HYC1Pa+Mmtcjvcb0AtYrc3j8NvpFWueleRb12sAK pAhNyOtA0MzDE0eQzpICZ7HW7nHaEfHOABP11d4uJSyncVFbNBD6b5JGuinv5/Q= =qEjq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--