In the last episode (Dec 09), Chuck Swiger said: > John Von Essen wrote: > >A few years ago I remember being able to download (from freebsd ftp > >server) mail spool files for the entire years worth of messages for a > >given mailing list. I would periodically, download these, parse them with > >a perl script and generate a file-based directory structure of all the > >message to search on. > > > >Can you still download these? I was on ftp2.freebsd.org looking around and > >I didn't see them anywhere. > > FreeBSD is now using Mailman for many lists, which keeps an archive at: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions.mbox/freebsd-questions.mbox > > That mbox file is 244MB in size, so I think that is what you are looking > for. Otherwise, consider mailing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> directly with > your request....
You can fetch weekly files from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/ , too. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"