Marcus Denker <marcus at 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.

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