https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25105
--- Comment #8 from Nemo_bis <[email protected]> 2011-08-17 09:10:40 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7) > That means, _also_ on those that are "private = 0" in our config and/or you > have listed as being on Gmane already. > > After logging in with my user/pass for that specific mailing list i do get the > mbox files. It was a year ago but if I remember correctly I wasn't able to download the mbox of some lists I was subscribed to. > Did i get you right though, that you say you can (or could) access _some_ mbox > files without any login? Yes, I'm sure that I just downloaded the foundation-l one with wget without any authentication (I also wondered what the /private meant, then) and that some months later I noticed I couldn't any longer. > Or do you say you are always logging in with some user/pass but you still just > get mbox files for _some_ of them? > > As to adding lists to Gmane, they are just subscribed via > (http://gmane.org/subscribe.php) right? Yes. I can do the paperwork. > I agree the "encryption/obfuscating mail addresses" option and the > "Unidirectional (no posting allowed through Gmane)" options should definitely > be switched on. Several of our lists (e.g. wikitech-l) actually offer subscribers to post via Gmane, but it's so complex and bugged that it's not worth the effort anyway. > > So you want the mbox files just one single time to import them as described on > http://gmane.org/import.php but not on a regular basis? > > Since subscribing the lists to Gmane means having a user/login for a mailing > list user, couldn't you (or Lars, the Gmane guy) just use that one to login at > the authentication screen in order to get the mbox file ? Yes, a single time would be enough, but he wants them to be on some public webserver he can just wget; moreover, if they're not in the standard (auto-updated directory), a good coordination would be needed so that he can import the mbox and then start receiving the new messages without losing anything in between. Subscribing to some dozens mailing lists and then logging in via wget (if possible) to get the mbox seems way more complex than needed and as said above doesn't seem to reliably work anyway; if those mboxes can't be made permanently public as they've been (at least some of them) for years, perhaps the better thing to do would be to make them public temporarily when he's ready for the import... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
