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Re: Mailing list archives
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at sourceware dot org>
- To: overseers at gcc dot gnu dot org, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>,Jonathan Larmour <jifl at jifvik dot org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:43:07 -0400
- Subject: Re: Mailing list archives
- References: <4F744B22.3000703@google.com><4F748899.7040903@jifvik.org>
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:06:49PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>On 29/03/12 12:44, Diego Novillo wrote:
>>
>> I may be misremembering, but I think we used to offer mailing list
>> archives in a tar ball or some other archiving format.
>>
>> I'm trying to do some offline processing on messages and all I can seem to
>> do is run wget -r, which results in individual messages in html format.
>>
>> Are there any other options?
>
>I don't think there are any tarballs made automatically. But you should
>find that if you get the "txt" subdirectory of the mailing list instead,
>you get the raw text format versions instead, if that helps.
>
>Also, you can get them with rsync, which may be more convenient and faster
>than wget. e.g. the with rsync module "gcc-ml-archive" for the gcc mailing
>list for March:
>
>rsync -a sourceware.org::gcc-ml-archive/2012-03/txt .
That's a great idea. Maybe we should put that in a FAQ somewhere.
Remember that if you want to use these files as real mail you'll have to
unobfuscate the mail addresses to s/ dot /./; s/ at /@/ in the header.
cgf