[Robotgroup] Interesting use for mailinglist archive.

[Def Egge]

At 15:15  2008-06-10, you wrote:
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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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Sorry if I never mentioned that, James.  It seemed too obvious to 
even mention to a geek like you.

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I archived everything that I 
could from the Yahoo! mailing list that we used before Evan Harris 
offered to host us on puremagic.com.

I sure would like to locate that file because it took hours to 
forward each and every email from the archive to one of my 
accounts.  I do not recall how far back that archive went back but it 
was active before I joined the group in August 2001.


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All the best....

Mike