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Re: Mailing list archives
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:31:01PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>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.
Ok, point taken. We didn't really advertise the ftp archives either so
we should be able to get by with a need-to-know on this too.
Nonetheless, I really do like the idea. I don't recall anyone
mentioning this in the past and it seems like a good alternative to the
ftp archives.
cgf