[off-list] Fwd: sourceware.org Automake mailing list archive is a dead-end

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> [Me going through oldish backlog...]
>
> Hi Ralf, Jim.
>
> Could we do something about the following "organizational" issue?
>   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-07/msg00042.html>
> (original message also forwarded in the attachement, for completeness).
>
> Regards,
>   Stefano
>
>
> From: Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com>
> Subject: sourceware.org Automake mailing list archive is a dead-end
> To: GNU Automake mailing list <automake@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:39:23 +0000 (15 weeks, 2 days, 21 hours ago)
> Reply-To: davehart_gmail_exchange_tee@davehart.net
>
> The 3rd hit on:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Automake+mailing+list+archive
>
> is RedHat's:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/automake/
>
> This is a dead-end, though, as it has nearly no recent messages
> archived, and those I could find were all Western Union phishing
> attempts.  I see at http://sources.redhat.com/automake/ that only
> automake-cvs@ and automake-prs@ mailing lists are now hosted by
> RedHat.  It would be spiffy if the dead-end sourceware.org page would
> redirect or point to the real archive at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/.  If it has older archives
> not present at lists.gnu.org, it would be nice if the responsible
> party would shut down the ongoing archiving of the Western Union
> stuff, and possibly trim the index to only show such older, legitimate
> archives.
>
> Prefixing "GNU " to the query gets more useful results, but hey, my
> fingers are lazy.  I welcome correction if my facts are confused.  I'm
> certainly unclear on the differences between sources.redhat.com and
> sourceware.org.

Hi Stefano,

I looked through the last few years of archives and found
absolutely nothing automake-related.  All but a few months
had no messages at all.  The handful that had anything had only
a spam message or two.  The most recent automake-related
message seems to date back to May of 2005.

I've Cc'd the sourceware.org admin list.  Someone there should be able
to disable further posting to that list.  Maybe it's easy to remove the
empty archives so that it's clearer that there's nothing in them.
If so, would you please remove all archives
from 2005-06 on?