I say let it go and move on. Not to say that I don't value everyone one's opinion here, but the mail archives didn't contain anything of lasting importance to me.
John Hebert --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I screwed up. I was working on filtering the mailbox > for the site so that I > could properly redirect different mailing lists to > the archives (if users > begin using the biz list again) and I deleted the > site's mail spool file! > > To make matters worse, I had a backup but accidently > deleted that too. Don't > ask.. > > This is a problem because I can't let hypermail > update the archives without > the original spool file. If I do the current archive > will be lost and we will > restart from the first message in the new spool > file. That means we will lose > over a year's worth of mail. > > Geez.. > > Now, I have three options here. First, I can just go > ahead and start the > archiver again, and the archive will reset to the > last few messages plus new > messages. The second option is to restore the achive > from someone on the list > that has the good sense to not delete any messages > since they joined. The > final option is to have the hosting company pull the > file from tape backup for > $40. > > What is everyone's thoughts? Anyone have the list > archived? Any packrats > here? > > Hmm, I guess I could write a tool to pull the > messages back out of the > archive, but I don't look forward to writing that. > > Regards, Dustin > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear > In the beginning the Universe was created. > This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - > Douglas Adams > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
