[Soc-coordination] Debian mailing lists archives as mbox

[Niels Thykier]

On 2011-08-04 09:16, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> (from soc-coordination)
> 
> Quoting Sukhbir Singh (sukhbir.in at gmail.com):
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is what we implemented during this time, in more detail:
>>
>> 1. Wrote a script that fetches messages for lists.debian.org from
>> Gmane and then creates a mbox archive for them. This allows us to
> 
> 
> I find it really sad that you have to do this while Debian mailing
> lists archives available as mbox *do exist* (but they're only
> available for DDs with accounts in Debian machines).
> 
> I understand there could be some  reluctance to offering these
> completely anonymously but I wonder if there could be an intermediate
> way for non DDs to get access to these archives. That would also help
> for the spam cleaning process (reviewing spam in one's MUA instead of
> online).
> 
> CC'ed to -devel and reply-to set there
> 
> 

Hi

To my knowledge you can download them via:

  http://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/mbox/<list>-YYYYMM

e.g.

  http://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/mbox/debian-mentors-201102

~Niels