[GoLUG] Adding this mailing list to gmane.io

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Jul 14 23:42:01 EDT 2023


Quoting Syeed Ali (syeedali at syeedali.com):

> On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 23:08:54 -0400
> Barry Fishman <barry at ecubist.org> wrote:
> 
> > There were 19078 messages.
> 
> Damn.
> 
> That makes me wonder if I should (or can) use those data to resurrect
> the GoLUG archives.

Scripting, m'lad, is your friend.

SVLUG's mailing list archive is a lot better than that, and, at one
point, I extended its coverage back to 1997 when I realised we still had
the prior _majordomo_ mailing list's mbox, cleverly caveman-welded 
copies of the two mboxes together with "cat", and test-regenerated the
archive using /var/lib/mailman/bin/arch .  Other than those accursed
message-body "From " lines getting misparsed and needing to get tracked
down and individually munged, it was smooth sailing.

Your chosen job is a bit more complex because you'll need to massage a
big pile of not-quite-mbox into mbox, but if you can script it, then 
Size Doesn't Matter.




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