Oh well... looks like I joined the mailing list more recently than I 
thought.  I have tille may of this year.  complete though.

Shannon

Shannon Roddy wrote:

> I should have a fairly complete archive in my brlug folder on my imap 
> server.  Complete since around september last year.  I think I have 
> all the way back to when I started, but I'll check.
>
> Shannon
>
> Dustin Puryear wrote:
>
>> I screwed up. I was working on filtering the mailbox for the site so 
>> that I
>> could properly redirect different mailing lists to the archives (if 
>> users
>> begin using the biz list again) and I deleted the site's mail spool 
>> file!
>> To make matters worse, I had a backup but accidently deleted that 
>> too. Don't
>> ask..
>>
>> This is a problem because I can't let hypermail update the archives 
>> without
>> the original spool file. If I do the current archive will be lost and 
>> we will
>> restart from the first message in the new spool file. That means we 
>> will lose
>> over a year's worth of mail.
>>
>> Geez..
>>
>> Now, I have three options here. First, I can just go ahead and start the
>> archiver again, and the archive will reset to the last few messages 
>> plus new
>> messages. The second option is to restore the achive from someone on 
>> the list
>> that has the good sense to not delete any messages since they joined. 
>> The
>> final option is to have the hosting company pull the file from tape 
>> backup for
>> $40.
>>
>> What is everyone's thoughts? Anyone have the list archived? Any packrats
>> here?
>>
>> Hmm, I guess I could write a tool to pull the messages back out of the
>> archive, but I don't look forward to writing that.
>>
>> Regards, Dustin
>>
>>
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