On Dec 6, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Gerard Beekmans wrote: >> Or compress them. Maybe make them only available to subscribed >> members. I wanted to grab the last two months of the blfs-support >> mailing list archive. >> Maybe someone can email me the files. > > Compressing is an option but would also require some Mailman > modifications, or a helper script running through cron - the various > files that make up an archive are automatically updated each time an > email arrives (ie email contents is appended to an mbox and txt file). > We don't want to run bzip2 on the mbox or monthly txt files each > time an > email arrives. The compress operation would take a while and a half > dozen more emails could arrive, making that a never ending cycle. > > A nightly or weekly snapshot would be a compromise there. > > In the mean time I'll send you the last two months of blfs-support to > your email address in a few minutes when I have it tar'ed up for you. > > G > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
My thought was compress the archives at the end of each day at 0000 UTC. If someone subscribes to the list and desires to get an archive they'll at most be missing the messages of that day up to the time they replied to the activation email of the list. Any comments? -William -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
