Hi, I'm aware that the mailing-list archives were removed from public websites because of excessive traffic/harvesting/&c.
Would it be possible for the tarballs to be retrievable via e.g. emailed mailing-list commands, by users that are subscribed to the relevant lists - and perhaps further restricted to only users that have been subscribed beyond a minimum time period &/or certain number of posts. That would also let you monitor any abuses. Folks would tend to at most make once-off - or at least once-in-a-long-while - downloads of said tarballs. Or perhaps a restricted ftp/http area that requires the user's mailing-list password(s) to access; and again, a cron job or similar could restrict access to only those that have been registered for over a certain amount of time, etc. More generally, is there some way to have e.g. osuosl mirror said archives - or at least tarballs - and publicly available via osuosl/mirrors, while being _not_ publicly available from the main linuxfromscratch server(s). I know that the likes of gmane &c have got limited 'mirrors' of the mailing lists; but it is very useful to be able to have the stuff locally on-disk, in mbox/maildir format. Regards, akhiezer -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/website FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
