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[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 09), Chuck Swiger said:
> John Von Essen wrote:
> >A few years ago I remember being able to download (from freebsd ftp
> >server) mail spool files for the entire years worth of messages for a
> >given mailing list. I would periodically, download these, parse them with
> >a perl script and generate a file-based directory structure of all the
> >message to search on.
> >
> >Can you still download these? I was on ftp2.freebsd.org looking around and
> >I didn't see them anywhere.
> 
> FreeBSD is now using Mailman for many lists, which keeps an archive at:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions.mbox/freebsd-questions.mbox
> 
> That mbox file is 244MB in size, so I think that is what you are looking 
> for. Otherwise, consider mailing <postmaster at freebsd.org> directly with 
>  your request....

You can fetch weekly files from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/ , too.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com