[Robotgroup] Interesting use for mailinglist archive.

[Andre Lamothe]

There another cool archiving tool on the net to look back at websites years 
ago:

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Andre'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blank James" <r at unfocusedbrain.com>
To: <Robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:15 PM
Subject: [Robotgroup] Interesting use for mailinglist archive.


> 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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