Yahoo archive truncated

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Fri Sep 27 06:08:49 UTC 2002


Marcus Denker wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:22:15PM -0700, Scott Wallace wrote:
> > I noticed that the Yahoo archive of the Squeak mailing list
> > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/) has been trimmed so that
> > everything before December 2001 seemingly is no longer accessible.
> >
> > Does anyone know why this happened, and how we can get the history
> > restored, and how we can avoid this happening again in the future?
> >
> 
> The best would be not to rely on yahoo for the archive. There
> is a nice archive at the squeakfoundation site:
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/
> 
> This is even nicely searchable with google.
> (if you add "site:lists.squeakfoundation.org"  the query  gets restricted
> to the list-archives). Of course it takes some weeks for google to index
> the latest posts.
> 
> The problem is that the archive contains only posts starting from 6/2001.
> 
> We should really try to have a *complete* archive of the Squeak
> Mailinglist... did anyone save all messages? I have archived all
> incoming email starting from sometime in 1999, I could dig out
> all Squak-dev messages from that point on. But it would be interesting
> to have all the older posts, too.
> 
http://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu/mail/squeak.old/
http://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu/mail/squeak/
These archives are quite old. Maybe they can be retrofitted to 
the newer list archive at lists.squeakfoundation.org?

Karl



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