Harold, Thanks for stepping in with such a great solution. I'll add one little twist, if possible. The current archives goes back to 1999. I have an additional ~1,000 messages that take us back to the list's beginnings in December, 1996.
Is it possible to incorporate them into the archives? Peggy _________________________________ Peggy Holman [email protected] 15347 SE 49th Place Bellevue, WA 98006 425-746-6274 www.peggyholman.com www.journalismthatmatters.org Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity "An angel told me that the only way to step into the fire and not get burnt, is to become the fire". -- Drew Dellinger On Dec 24, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Harold Shinsato wrote: > Hi Raffi, > > You're welcome. Thanks for insisting that I take a closer look. Bottom line - > no - this is not a problem and I don't think we need to process more messages > first. The conversion is working perfectly. But there is something to > consider. > > The ListServ software collects the messages as they come in and creates a > separate archive file for each month. Looking over the 54 messages that > Michael Herman posted online to http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist.log9904 > there's a message definitely marked as if it were from June 1999. So if you > take the messages at their word - the message is really from June 1999. So > the conversion did not introduce any errors. (You can check this yourself at > Michael's link.) > > But based on the context, the one message with the June date stamp looks like > the person who sent it had put an invalid time stamp on their message. I get > messages like this sometimes from people who don't set the clock on their > computer properly. > > The Mailman software does not collect the messages into separate files for > each month. Mailman stores the archived messages all in a single mbox file. > So the date sorting is very dependent on the timestamp on the messages being > accurate to sort them properly. > > So even though the conversion happened properly - it might be worthwhile > going over all the ListServ archives and making a guess at the correct > timestamp. The message was written somewhere between April 17 and April 20, > 1999 based on the message thread evidence. Hopefully it didn't happen that > often, as it's a bit of detective work for each message. > > Happy Holidays! > Harold > > > > On 12/24/10 5:10 PM, Raffi Aftandelian wrote: >> Harold, thanks for this. I'm really grateful that you have taken this time, >> along with Michael Herman, to research a post-Boise home for OSlist. >> >> And just to clarify: >> >> You're saying that in your test run you converted one month, April 1999. And >> that you're confident that the stray message from June 1999 (which isn't >> really from June 1999) should not be an indication of a problem? >> >> I don't know if you'd have the chance to do so, I'm wondering if you think >> it would be worthwhile to convert a few more months just to make sure that >> this conversion would work? >> >> happy holidays and belated yalda! >> >> appreciatively, >> Raffi >> > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected]: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
