On 28Nov2013 19:46, Arif Khokar <akhokar1...@wvu.edu> wrote: > The problem with just using email is that it's a bit more difficult > to browse archived posts to this group. After I subscribed to this > group (comp.lang.python) using my news client, I could immediately > browse posts made as far back as April.
I vastly prefer email. My first act on joining any mailing list is to download the entire archive into my local mail store. I have a script for this, for mailman at least. Example: get-mailman-archive http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/ >python-mac.mbox I then suck the whole thing into the folder to which future list posts will get filed. That way I have the whole archive, and it is local, and I can examine it with whatever tools take my fancy (mairix, mutt, grep, etc). Most mailman lists make their archives readily available. This cannot be said for the travesty that is Google Groups, and in fact almost any other list/group/forum run with other software. Really, most mailing list archives are easily small enough to do this routinely. Happy to assist anyone with scripts etc. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> Carpe Daemon - Seize the Background Process - Paul Tomblin <ab...@freenet2.carleton.ca> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list