Re: request for mailing list archive in mbox format

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> As I told Teodor when he email'd me about it, I have to do some work on
> the main server, for security reasons, before I can give you access to the
> archives ... once done, I will send Teodor the URL to use with rsync to
> download them to the IP he provide me ...
>
> This will most likely *not* happen until the new year, but will try and
> get it done as early in the new year as possible (ie. first week in
> January)

I never suspect it'd require more than several minutes to configure
rsyncd :) You didn't answer what's the reason to hide mailing list archives.

>
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > is there any legal way to get mailing list archive on mbox format ?
> > We (me and Teodor) are working on new incarnation of fts.postgresql.org
> > It will be www.pgsql.ru, have multilanguage interface (russian, english),
> > and besides mailing list archive there will be search on postgresql related
> > sites (we already crawled about 27 sites).
> > We've got dedicated server
> > for this project and the only thing we need is the mailing list archive
> > in mbox format for initial loading. I didn't find any legal way to get
> > mailing list archives. I've sent several messages to Marc, but he seems
> > just ignored them :( and did reply only to Teodor's email about
> > some security concern :) I could believe Marc is busy and dissapointed
> > but I see no reason to hide mailing list archives and hinder our work.
> > So, I'm asking if
> > somebody have mailing list archives in mbox format and what's legal way
> > to get access to them ? Do I need to write some application :-?
> > I think it's important to let people easy access to postgresql related
> > information.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Oleg
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> > Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
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Regards,
Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
Internet: oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83