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Date:      Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:08:32 +0100 (CET)
From:      Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mailing list archive as mbox
Message-ID:  <permail-2010030711083280e26a0b000037c1-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de>
In-Reply-To: <20100307043845.GB12122@dan.emsphone.com>

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Dan Nelson schrieb am 2010-03-07:
> In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said:
> > hi there,

> > what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire
> > mailingslist
> > archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format?

> Go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/
> where you
> can download weekly gzipped archives of all the mailing lists since
> their
> creation.

thanks for the hint, but it would take hours to download all those gzipped
files, extract them and merge them.

i really need ALL the messages of a mailinglist. of course i could use the
gzipped files you mentioned if i had some script for downloading extracting
and merging all those files for me.

alex



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