mbox format archive?
hi i'd like to get as large an archive as possible of this list in mbox format. Looking around I don't see any archive in mbox format surprisingly, does anyone know if this exists? thanks!
Re: mbox format archive?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i'd like to get as large an archive as possible of this list in mbox format. Looking around I don't see any archive in mbox format surprisingly, does anyone know if this exists? thanks! I've been archiving the vim, vim-dev and vim-multibyte lists locally, ever since I switched over to Linux. The file is 19 meg by now. Shall I send it to you as attachment by private email? Best regards, Tony. -- GALAHAD: Camelot ... LAUNCELOT: Camelot ... GAWAIN:It's only a model. Monty Python and the Holy Grail PYTHON (MONTY) PICTURES LTD
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steven smith wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I've been archiving the vim, vim-dev and vim-multibyte lists locally, ever since I switched over to Linux. The file is 19 meg by now. Shall I send it to you as attachment by private email? Please make sure you strip out any email addresses before you do that. Thank you Steve S. No. Either you get it as it came through the list, or you don't; I'm not gonna lose timeeffort at editing a file which I'm providing as is as a convenience to some other Vimmer. Email addresses were sent to the list, so what's the matter? Best regards, Tony. -- The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Bohr
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thank you! That would be perfect. If it's not too much trouble I wonder if you could send four 5 meg files, you can split easily with: split --verbose -b 500 Mboxfile 'vim.' I just tested that I can receive those, but a 19 M file will get a reject. if it's a hassle never mind I don't wish to trouble you. thank you. Arnold A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i'd like to get as large an archive as possible of this list in mbox format. Looking around I don't see any archive in mbox format surprisingly, does anyone know if this exists? thanks! I've been archiving the vim, vim-dev and vim-multibyte lists locally, ever since I switched over to Linux. The file is 19 meg by now. Shall I send it to you as attachment by private email? Best regards, Tony. -- GALAHAD: Camelot ... LAUNCELOT: Camelot ... GAWAIN:It's only a model. Monty Python and the Holy Grail PYTHON (MONTY) PICTURES LTD
Re: mbox format archive?
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:48:35PM +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Other lists I've been on save archives with no addresses or addresses mangled I think. If you look at http://marc.info/?l=vim-devr=1w=2, the addresses are indeed mangled, but in such a way that anyone with two brain cells and perl interpreter can demangle them. Maybe it's easier for a spammer to join the list and talk to people, hoping that someone will present him the archives on a silver plate. Maybe not. Yeti -- http://gwyddion.net/
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Ali Polatel wrote: A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] yazmış: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i'd like to get as large an archive as possible of this list in mbox format. Looking around I don't see any archive in mbox format surprisingly, does anyone know if this exists? thanks! I've been archiving the vim, vim-dev and vim-multibyte lists locally, ever since I switched over to Linux. The file is 19 meg by now. Shall I send it to you as attachment by private email? Hi, I was reading the vim mailing list today and saw this post :) I would be very happy if you can send me the archives of vim and vim-dev when you have time.. thanks! Hmm... This post of mine seems to be eliciting two kinds of reactions: Me too, me too and Don't, you fool, he may be a spammer harvesting addresses. I think I'll leave it on the backburner for a while, waiting for the situation to clarify. Comments, anyone? Best regards, Tony. -- We're knights of the round table We dance whene'er we're able We do routines and chorus scenes With footwork impeccable. We dine well here in Camelot We eat ham and jam and spam a lot. Monty Python and the Holy Grail PYTHON (MONTY) PICTURES LTD
Re[2]: mbox format archive?
On Tue, 29 May 2007, A.J.Mechelynck apparently wrote: Hmm... This post of mine seems to be eliciting two kinds of reactions: Me too, me too and Don't, you fool, he may be a spammer harvesting addresses. I think I'll leave it on the backburner for a while, waiting for the situation to clarify. Comments, anyone? - Probability that this is a spammer request: approx 0. Old addresses aren't much use. Spammers aren't so polite. Etc. - To make it zero, see if he has ever posted to the list... - sed s/@[A-Za-z]\+/@xxx/g archivefile archivefile2send Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: Re[2]: mbox format archive?
On 5/29/07, Alan G Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 May 2007, A.J.Mechelynck apparently wrote: Hmm... This post of mine seems to be eliciting two kinds of reactions: Me too, me too and Don't, you fool, he may be a spammer harvesting addresses. I think I'll leave it on the backburner for a while, waiting for the situation to clarify. Comments, anyone? - Probability that this is a spammer request: approx 0. Old addresses aren't much use. Spammers aren't so polite. Etc. - To make it zero, see if he has ever posted to the list... - sed s/@[A-Za-z]\+/@xxx/g archivefile archivefile2send Cheers, Alan Isaac The interesting thing is that the guy who is in question of being a spammer is the same guy who asked for safeguards against that type of thing... -- -fREW
Re: mbox format archive?
Ehehe never mind about this, I had no idea this would stir everyone up. I consider it fairly normal for list archives to be offered in mbox format (ex. Lua and Template Toolkit and 5 million others) and like to keep them around, since I can just drop them right into local folders in thunderbird for searching. Especially handy for offline, and for not having to rely on someone's frontend to search the archives for difficult to find things, that I know are buried someplace in the archive. Looking at the commands I can issue to the listmanager, looks like I can whip out something that will make me an archive so all good. thanks for your offer though AJ. A.
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Tim Chase wrote: Hmm... This post of mine seems to be eliciting two kinds of reactions: Me too, me too and Don't, you fool, he may be a spammer harvesting addresses. I think I'll leave it on the backburner for a while, waiting for the situation to clarify. Comments, anyone? This is the vim list, after all...surely a quick regexp to mangle/hide the email adderesses could be applied across any such files? I don't know the inner workings of mbox (all in one file? multiple files in one directory?), but some short work with argdo should take care of it :) mbox is (IIUC) the format used by Thunderbird, Outlook Express (but not Outlook), and many other mailers for what they misleadingly call email folders. Each folder is a single file (from the OS's viewpoint). Email headers are included. Any munging I would do would be applied equally to headers and body. sh$ cd /path/to/vim/mbox sh$ mkdir ../munged sh$ cp * ../munged sh$ cd ../munged sh$ vim * :set hidden :argdo %s/[EMAIL PROTECTED])+/\=substitute(substitute(submatch(0), '\.', ' [DOT] ', 'g'), '@', ' [AT] NoSpAm.', 'g')/g :wqa sh$ cd .. sh$ tar cvfz vim_ml.tgz munged It may mung a bit more or less redacting than one actually wants, but for the most part, it should stave off the fears that the OP is a spam harvester. My inkling is that such is not the case...there are a lot more fertile grounds for harvesting addresses than personally asking for mbox files in a place as niche as the vim ML. And if targeting the mass audience, I suspect they would as for an Outlook/OE .PST file instead of mbox :) My Turing-test-o-meter is registering fairly high on the it's a human scale. :) -tim Best regards, Tony. -- If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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fREW wrote: [...] The interesting thing is that the guy who is in question of being a spammer is the same guy who asked for safeguards against that type of thing... no, he isn't; it was requested by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and later by Ali Polatel), and warned against by steven smith. If my reply to the latter gave the (false) impression that he was the same as the former, it may be because I was a little confused at the time. Best regards, Tony. -- It was a virgin forest, a place where the Hand of Man had never set foot.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ehehe never mind about this, I had no idea this would stir everyone up. I consider it fairly normal for list archives to be offered in mbox format (ex. Lua and Template Toolkit and 5 million others) and like to keep them around, since I can just drop them right into local folders in thunderbird for searching. Especially handy for offline, and for not having to rely on someone's frontend to search the archives for difficult to find things, that I know are buried someplace in the archive. Looking at the commands I can issue to the listmanager, looks like I can whip out something that will make me an archive so all good. thanks for your offer though AJ. A. My pleasure. Best regards, Tony. -- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. -- Olivier
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On 5/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ehehe never mind about this, I had no idea this would stir everyone up. I consider it fairly normal for list archives to be offered in mbox format (ex. Lua and Template Toolkit and 5 million others) and like to keep them around, since I can just drop them right into local folders in thunderbird for searching. Especially handy for offline, and for not having to rely on someone's frontend to search the archives for difficult to find things, that I know are buried someplace in the archive. Looking at the commands I can issue to the listmanager, looks like I can whip out something that will make me an archive so all good. thanks for your offer though AJ. A. I don't think you are a spammer/bot! :-) -- -fREW
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fREW wrote: On 5/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ehehe never mind about this, I had no idea this would stir everyone up. I consider it fairly normal for list archives to be offered in mbox format (ex. Lua and Template Toolkit and 5 million others) and like to keep them around, since I can just drop them right into local folders in thunderbird for searching. Especially handy for offline, and for not having to rely on someone's frontend to search the archives for difficult to find things, that I know are buried someplace in the archive. Looking at the commands I can issue to the listmanager, looks like I can whip out something that will make me an archive so all good. thanks for your offer though AJ. A. I don't think you are a spammer/bot! :-) Certainly not a bot. A spammer -- I don't think so either. Thinking back on it, I think it would be better if aff can get it by querying the listbot, because from time to time I've been moving private mail by Vimmers to that same archive folder. Best regards, Tony. -- Festivity Level 1: Your guests are chatting amiably with each other, admiring your Christmas-tree ornaments, singing carols around the upright piano, sipping at their drinks and nibbling hors d'oeuvres. Festivity Level 2: Your guests are talking loudly -- sometimes to each other, and sometimes to nobody at all, rearranging your Christmas-tree ornaments, singing I Gotta Be Me around the upright piano, gulping their drinks and wolfing down hors d'oeuvres. Festivity Level 3: Your guests are arguing violently with inanimate objects, singing I can't get no satisfaction, gulping down other peoples' drinks, wolfing down Christmas tree ornaments and placing hors d'oeuvres in the upright piano to see what happens when the little hammers strike. Festivity Level 4: Your guests, hors d'oeuvres smeared all over their naked bodies are performing a ritual dance around the burning Christmas tree. The piano is missing. You want to keep your party somewhere around level 3, unless you rent your home and own Firearms, in which case you can go to level 4. The best way to get to level 3 is egg-nog.
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* A.J.Mechelynck is quoted my replies are inline below : Ali Polatel wrote: A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] yazmış: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i'd like to get as large an archive as possible of this list in mbox format. Looking around I don't see any archive in mbox format surprisingly, does anyone know if this exists? thanks! I've been archiving the vim, vim-dev and vim-multibyte lists locally, ever since I switched over to Linux. The file is 19 meg by now. Shall I send it to you as attachment by private email? Hi, I was reading the vim mailing list today and saw this post :) I would be very happy if you can send me the archives of vim and vim-dev when you have time.. thanks! Hmm... This post of mine seems to be eliciting two kinds of reactions: Me too, me too and Don't, you fool, he may be a spammer harvesting addresses. I think I'll leave it on the backburner for a while, waiting for the situation to clarify. Comments, anyone? Regarding people's concerns about email addresses being visible - they do realise that every post made to the vim mailing list is available on mail-to-news gateways like gmane, don't they? Poster's email address are not munged and available on USENET even though posted on a mailing list. -- Troy Piggins | http://piggo.com/~troy __ ___ RLU#415538\ \ / (_)_ __ ,-O (o-O \ V /| | ' \ O ) //\ O Vim 7.0.22 \_/ |_|_|_|_| `-O V_/_ OOO
