I would think the easiest, best resource would be the host of this 
mailing list. The archives seem to go back to July of 2001 (when the 
hosting changed) and are available as a monthly zipped mailbox or you 
can get the entire 68mb Mailbox. The archives are kept current.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/

For any of the older archives maybe someone at UIUC? would have a copy 
they could make available.

Jimmie Houchin

se99011 at fhs-hagenberg.ac.at wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> Perhaps this link
> 
> http://macos.tuwien.ac.at:9009/Server.home
> 
> could be of interest to you: joining forces? Follow the link at the bottom.
> 
> -- Christian
> 
> Christian Eitner
> Sub-Omnipotent/SoftwareEngineer
> 
> Zitiere "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz>:
> 
> 
>>I've got a PhD student working on Information Retrieval.
>>He has an IR engine which he's pretty pleased with, and
>>I thought it would be neat to drop the Squeak mailing list
>>archives into it and see what happens.
>>
>>Question 1: what are the authoritative sites for the Squeak
>>mailing list archives?  With a Google search, I've found what
>>look like three.
>>
>>Question 2: can I just FTP the lot with perhaps a small script
>>rather than ruining my wrists with clicky-clicky?
>>
>>Question 3: roughly how large _are_ the archives?
>>I've estimated 2-3kB per message from a sample, 10-40 messages
>>per day, call it 1/2 to 3 1/2 MB per month.  So my very rough
>>estimate is 40 to 300MB, and the student (who has worked in the
>>industry) calls 300 MB "small".
>>
>>Question 4: would there be any interest in having the mailing
>>list archives accessible through an Information Retrieval engine?