Do we really need the ezmlm mailing list archives?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 05:38:54AM -0700, Jason Molenda wrote:
>Another option - which I've done in the past - is to .tar.bz2 old
>archives.  They still take up disk space, but less than they would
>otherwise.  This is done by hand right now, though.  (it's not hard
>to envision a script that would run monthly, tar.bz2 up directories
>that haven't been modified in the past month, and remove them.)

I've done that and I've also compressed the older, individual archive
files.  IIRC, there is even an ezmlm patch that allows you to use
files that way.

cgf