On 10/20/2011 11:28 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Wolf Halton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do any of these lists have publicly accessible archives? It would be a >> shame to lose those, when the lists shut down. I suspect messages about OOo >> 1.x are pretty much dead, or at least the software is pretty much >> obsoleted. Those archives might be less useful. >> > > Yes, there is a MarkMail archive of 333 OOo mailing lists, 1.6 million > messages, going back to the project's start in 2000. > > See: http://openoffice.markmail.org/ ...
I fail to understand why you continue to fall back on MarkMail for archives rather than simply pulling the archives over to an Apache server. MarkMail is a third party service that can terminate it's services at any time & have their own ToU. See: http://markmail.org/docs/terms-of-use.xqy <quote> 2. Provision of Service You understand and agree that MarkMail is provided to you on an as is and as available basis. You understand that MarkMail is experimental, that its availability may be intermittent, and that its content may be incomplete. Furthermore, We reserve the right, without any notice or liability to you, to change the functionality of the Service or to cease providing the Service at any time. Finally, We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone at our sole discretion. </quote> Might be worth reading the entire ToU... and http://markmail.org/docs/content-policy.xqy Content Not Complete Usage and Personal Information Point is that Apache have no control over MarkMail, or their services. Should MarkMail go belly up tomorrow Apache would have no archives at all. Certainly if list archivals like gmane, nabble, and MarkMail can do this without issue, Apache should be able to do the same... particularly since the lists are already archived on the kenai servers. http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/lists http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home Or am I missing something/misunderstanding your reasoning to rely on a third party to archive the OOo lists?
