On 09/06/2017 07:13 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 08:33 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> On 09/05/2017 08:19 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: >>> Since gmane.org is no longer operational linux-block messages are no longer >>> archived. I think it's useful to archive linux-block messages because it >>> makes it possible to review past discussions, especially for people who are >>> not subscribed to the list. How about activating archival by >>> mail-archive.com >>> and spinics.net? As far as I know this can only be done by someone who is >>> list >>> administrator. But I don't know who the linux-block list administrator(s) >>> are? >> >> I always use marc.info: >> >> https://marc.info/?l=linux-block >> >> If we want to add it elsewhere, that's fine with me. I'm probably the admin, >> I was the one that asked for the list to be created. > > Thanks Jens for the feedback. What I tried yesterday morning was to look up a > linux-block message by searching for its contents with a web search engine. > That > search did not yield any results. Does this mean that messages on marc.info > are > not indexed by Google? Is this a sufficient reason to let an additional web > site > archive the linux-block messages?
Definitely, it'd be nice to have it be searchable. That's half the utility of an archive... I'll see if I can get mail-archive.com setup. -- Jens Axboe
