From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24069 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2011 21:49:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 24061 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Apr 2011 21:49:59 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_ZM,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:49:52 +0000 Received: (qmail 660 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2011 21:49:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digraph.polyomino.org.uk) (joseph@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 2 Apr 2011 21:49:51 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q68ha-00074K-BZ; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:49:50 +0000 Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:49:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Gerald Pfeifer cc: overseers@sourceware.org, Thomas Schwinge Subject: Re: Shell access / mailing list mbox archives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <878vxra2gl.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net> <87aag9u1o3.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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/msg00005.txt.bz2 On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Thomas Schwinge 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? > > Is there a more direct way to provide to Thomas what he wants? I > could not find any mbox files on gcc.gnu.org any more, but perhaps > I've been missing them somewhere (or the could be recreated easily)? They're /sourceware/vault/old-ftp-archives/. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com