[Robotgroup] Interesting use for mailinglist archive.

Blank James r at unfocusedbrain.com
Tue Jun 10 13:15:31 PDT 2008


Today I discovered/realized that the mailing list archive has a .gz 
version of each month going back to 2003.
http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/robotgroup/

The neat thing is that these are stored in mbox format.

What this means is that I will be able to get a local copy of all the 
list going back to 2003 by just dropping the decompressed file into my 
Thunderbird "Local Folders" directory.
(That is I dropped it into the the actual folder on the HDD 
/home/u/.mozilla-thunderbird/burrrr.default/Mail/Local Folders/)

I did a quick test w/ a couple months and it seems to work great.

Pretty neat. My archive only went back to 2007.

James D.


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