On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:12 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Speaking of which, last I checked, the link (at the top of the mailman > archive) to download the full archive is broken.
Fixed. Seems like a Mailman bug introduced in this commit [1], which nobody has noticed in over a year... I guess I should report it. But a long time ago I set up an alternate way to download the archives, directly through the web server so it supports range requests etc.: https://agora:no...@mailman.agoranomic.org/archives/ Each mbox file is append-only, so you can use the "continue download" option of your favorite tool to sync without having to redownload the whole thing: wget -c https://agora:no...@mailman.agoranomic.org/archives/agora-business.mbox The authentication was added out of concern for ancient etiquette rules about exposing email addresses to web scrapers. Almost certainly pointless these days. Especially, in our case, considering that Registrar's report is published on the web, and includes all players' email addresses, obfuscated only by replacing "@" with " at ", which I doubt stops any scrapers (but who knows). I suppose I could mirror the archives on GitHub, which would be less idiosyncratic and more resilient to me getting hit by a bus. That would, however, imply giving up on obfuscating email addresses, unless I made the repo private (which defeats the purpose of resilience) or obfuscated the repo contents somehow (which defeats the purpose of avoiding idiosyncracy). Thoughts? [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-checkins@python.org/msg09051.html
