Archives of GTALUG list

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:47:05PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> 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

How exactly is git useful for storing email?  I just can't picture that.

-- 
Len Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists