[gurps] [ADMIN] Request for technical assistance

[David Scheidt]

On 10/28/07, Jonathan Lang <dataweaver at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone here know the ins and outs of Mailman?  I'm trying to find
> a way to insert the e-mail archives currently stored at
> "http://www.gurpsnet.org/Digests" into the mailing list archive
> currently found at "http://mail.sjgames.com/pipermail/gurpsnet-l".
> Alternatively, I'd be interested in advice on other email archive
> tools; I'm looking for something that's web-based, easy to install and
> maintain, and able to be back-filled with the old archives.
>

mailman can import mbox format files.  The archives at
gursnet.org/Digests appear to be nearly, but not exactly, that format.
 they've got a header, and a bunch of dashes separating the messages.
If you lose the header ("GURPSnet-Digest  Wednesday, December 1 1993
Volume 00 : Number 002" in the one I'm looking at), concatenate your
archives, you can then feed them to arch.  Work on a copy, of course!




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David Scheidt
dmscheidt at gmail.com