I managed the extract that file successfully. I uploaded the extract to GitHub if you wanna just git clone it instead:
https://github.com/cryptoanarchywiki/2000-to-2016-raw-cypherpunks-archive On Fri, 6 Jul 2018, 5:40 am Steve Kinney, <ad...@pilobilus.net> wrote: > > > On 07/05/2018 07:20 PM, juan wrote: > > > > > > quote: > > From: "Riad S. Wahby" <r...@jfet.org> > > Subject: Re: moving on > > Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 20:44:31 -0700 > > > > Done! This tarball goes back as far as 1999, though I'm not certain > > it's a complete archive. Note that prior to the LNE node, the list > > was 100% unfiltered, so what's below includes a decent amount of spam. > > All told, it's about 95k messages in Maildir format. > > > > https://cpunks.org/cpunk/cypherpunks.tar.bz2 > > wget sez: HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found > > > https://cpunks.org/cpunk/cypherpunks.tar.bz2.asc > > wget sez: HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found > > > > > ----------------- > > > > > > I uploaded a copy of those archives here > > > > https://www6.zippyshare.com/v/H0msMEKw/file.html > > Seems legit except 'extract' has been chewing on the file for 45 minutes > now without spitting out any useful bits that I can see, while 'top' > indicates 99% of CPU cycles dedicated to the task. It's kind of > reassuring that 'extract' reports files in "GNU tar format" were found. > But @126 MB I would expect /most/ archive files of this size to unpack > in way less than a minute here. > > amidoinitrite? > > Has anybody got a verifiably useful copy? > > :o) > > >