Re: [Gossip] Porting digested new list archives to mail-archive

2015-04-14 Thread Shahrukh Merchant
Thanks Matt and Jeff for your answers--they were very helpful. So, as I understand it: - Sending link to mailman raw archives will take care of all posts from 2006 to present (for which the mailman archives exist). - Listserv digest format to individual email mbox format conversion (for the

[Gossip] Porting digested new list archives to mail-archive

2015-04-12 Thread Shahrukh Merchant
I have two discussion lists on the Argentine Tango that are probably going to be suspended going forward owing to lack of activity in the face of many competing technologies in recent years, but that have a treasure of information dating back from 1994. I would like to get these onto

Re: [Gossip] Porting digested new list archives to mail-archive

2015-04-18 Thread Shahrukh Merchant
Jeff, Thanks again--more things are clear now. But your response raises more questions in my mind as well. Please bear with me, we're almost there I think. Keeping in mind that I am splitting Digests into individual messages, I have to fake whatever headers are not already there within the

Re: [Gossip] Porting digested new list archives to mail-archive

2015-04-14 Thread Shahrukh Merchant
On 4/14/2015 9:25 PM, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: * I recommend doing the import all at once, rather than in stages. Not for technical reasons, it just saves manual labor. OK, I may do it in 2 stages, since 1/2 the archives are in mbox format that can be imported instantly. The other half are in