Jeff,
Thanks again--more things are clear now. But your response raises more
questions in my mind as well. Please bear with me, we're almost there I
think.
Keeping in mind that I am splitting Digests into individual messages, I
have to fake whatever headers are not already there within the
Yes, you can safely leave out To, Message-id, and Received.
Consequences are what you'd expect, like the inability to do a
message-id search and find that particular message.
You are correct. Posting address is manually assigned during the bulk
import process, and automatically determined from
The only things indexed for search are: message-id, subject, date (usually
extracted from the Recieved: header), sender name (extracted
from From: header), posting address (for example, gossip@mail-archive.com),
archival message number, and message body. Every message is sorted and
organized
Thanks Matt and Jeff for your answers--they were very helpful. So, as I
understand it:
- Sending link to mailman raw archives will take care of all posts from
2006 to present (for which the mailman archives exist).
- Listserv digest format to individual email mbox format conversion (for
the
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Matt Morgan wrote:
2. Now the harder one. From Sep 1994 (inception) to Apr 2006, the lists
were hosted using L-Soft's LISTSERV software, which did not keep archives.
However, I have a complete set of all traffic from that time period, but
they are all in
Statute of limitations is typically 3 kilomessages on a normal
non-import list, but should (I think) be unlimited on bulk import.
Conversion to unix newlines is required and is manual; doesn't
matter who does it.
Still prefer to do whole import at once especially if tricky; less
labor, also less
On 4/14/2015 9:25 PM, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
* I recommend doing the import all at once, rather than in
stages. Not for technical reasons, it just saves manual labor.
OK, I may do it in 2 stages, since 1/2 the archives are in mbox format
that can be imported instantly. The other half are in
On 04/13/2015 12:57 AM, Shahrukh Merchant wrote:
I have two discussion lists on the Argentine Tango that are probably
going to be suspended going forward owing to lack of activity in the
face of many competing technologies in recent years, but that have a
treasure of information dating back
