Re: Mailing list archives

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at jifvik dot org>]

On 29/03/12 18:43, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:06:49PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>> 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.

I can add it to http://sourceware.org/ml/ if you like, but I'd personally
be a bit hesitant making it too obvious, in case we are just making things
easier for spammers, since, as you say...

> 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.

... all the email addresses are easily deobfuscated.

Jifl