Archives of GTALUG list

[Christopher Browne]

One question brought up at the meeting on Tuesday where the answer
seemed to surprise a lot of people was, "where is there an archive of
this mailing list?"

Some people were rather surprised that the answer was, "yes, it *is* archived!"

The archive may be found here:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug

Note that it offers a number of feeds:
a) Web interface (and not just one; there are several)
b) RSS feed
c) NNTP feed

Note that this has been documented for quite a long time.
   http://gtalug.org/wiki/TLUG_Mailing_List_FAQ

If someone was particularly keen on pulling their own local archive of
this, that wouldn't be too hard to do.
http://gmane.org/export.php

Someone with suitable "Round Tuits" might even find it an entertaining
idea to archive this in the form of a Git repository.  I have done
that with the mailing lists for the Slony project, and have set up
scripts that pull archives daily, and push them into a Git repository
at GitHub.  Those scripts are specifically for Mailman, but the
approach could certainly be adapted to other ways of getting at mail
archives.

My code, which runs every day, may be found here:
   https://github.com/cbbrowne/slony-backups/tree/master/scripts
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