On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:55 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Pascal Hakim] > > The reason it hasn't been done so far is not related to any technical > > problem. There seems to be just as many people who do not want the > > mboxes to be available as people who do. > > Do these same people object to web archives of the lists? I'm curious,
Some do. > because I don't really see a qualitative difference. The headers It's easier to script through mboxes than through web archives. > retained by an mbox but not exposed to the web don't seem all that > objectionable, especially since the web archives don't munge email > addresses. They might one day. It's possible to restrict http://lists.debian.org to stop or slow down people leeching across the web archives. > I suppose it'd be necessary for the exported mboxes to honor the > No-External-Archive: yes and so forth, which might not be the case > today (I've never gained access to them so I don't know). > I actually have no idea whether we honour that already or not. Pasc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
