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

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:19:31PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>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?

automake left sourceware many years ago.  I'm tired of questions about
this so I've deleted the archives and all the traces I could find of
automake in qmail.

cgf