Marcus Denker marcus@ira.uka.de said:
Adding older mails to the squeakfoundation archive is very simple (Mailman stores a single unix-mbox file and it's possible to recreate the html with the "arch" tool)
Cool. Issue #1 solved. Now, how to get the content...
But we need the old posts to be in unix-mbox files... the html from http://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu/mail/ ist pretty useless. And this archive only contains files back to summer 99....
I think I saw .tar.gz files somewhere... Yup - there's a 'squeak.tar.gz' and a 'squeak-old.tar.gz'. However, that
I just checked my mailarchive: It seems to contain mails sent to me starting July 1998. But sorting 120MB bzip2 compressed mbox-mailboxes. I'd need to write some script that rips out the mails from the Squeaklist...
Luckily enough, 120Mb is small these days (I remember one day earlier this year when I was doing some customer support, when I told the girl to open file XXX and check line 265,000 for the info see needed - some accounting system dump. To my utter astonishment, it appeared that in the 21st century, some comopany still distributes an OS with a default text editor that cannot handle 70Mb files so I had to mail her the info ;-)).
Just gimme everything you've got (upload it to incoming on ftp.theinternetone.net or ftp.squeakfoundation.org, that puts it on the correct server), I'll unique all the messages on message id and declare that the new archive.