[Teammetrics-discuss] Importing mboxes (Was: Please add this subject to SPAM subjects)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Sukhbir,

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 03:21:08PM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> > Well, the DNS problem is definitely solved - this must be some other
> > problem - no idea what. :-(
> 
> I think there is some problem still, because we did not have this issue
> at all with the previous host. Since Thomas (I met him at DebConf!) has
> been so kind to provide us with this VM, maybe he can help us in
> diagnosing what the problem is. Or maybe the problem is on Alioth's
> side? I think the only way I know to confirm this is that I will run
> liststat on my own VPS and then see how it goes.

I do not think that Thomas is really interested in providing "support"
for the machines he is providing for free.  In case you think the
problem is not related to DNS my strategy would be to try to create an
as small as possible chunk of code that shows the problem.  May be you
create an extract from the whole code "test_fetching_mbox" and we have
a look at this (or ask for help in some mailing list / IRC channel).

> > BTW, at DebConf I had some interesting chat with
> > 
> >    Alexandre Delanoë (http://alexandre.delanoe.org)
> > 
> > who had some quite interesting research done about the length of
> > threads.  He needs message IDs for his research.  IMHO we do have this
> > in our database but I'm not fully sure whether this is only the case for
> > those mailing lists were we have the mbox files.  Perhaps we need to
> > talk again to listmaster about publishing mboxes after striping down the
> > metainformation to the really needed part.  The code was written but we
> > somehow lost track upon this.
> 
> We have the message-IDs for both the lists on Alioth and for lists.d.o
> :) I had be happy to help him in whatever data he needs, so maybe you
> can ask him to get in touch with us on this mailing list itself, if
> that's OK with him.

He promised to subscribe the list ...

Kind regards

       Andreas. 

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