On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:07:37PM +0100, Markus Wichmann wrote: > archive of this list (which goes back maybe a year or so), and the > official version of the archive has no search function, nor has any > attempt at sending Google on that archive been successful. And since the > archive only has index pages by month, I can't even get the entire > message index, or even the message index per year and search via C-F.
This is a general problem of mailing lists and it annoys me too. One has to remember that MLs are just a crippled substitute for a newsgroup. Unfortunately the usenet as it once was used is dieing rather quickly, which is not a good thing. Mailman managed MLs often offer gzip'd archives on a per-month basis. My way to deal with the problem is some shell scripting to fetch all the archives and import them in my MUA, so that I am able to properly search the history. The suckless MLs unfortunately don't offer such a feature. I don't see a possibility to fetch the raw mails in a standard format from the web archive. Maybe there is some secret I don't know. Kind regards, -Alex
