On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > However, before you get very excited see if people can get messages back out > of the archive. A major annoyance for me with GGroups versus mailman is that > if I join a group I cannot download the historical archive. (This is a > standard step for me when I join a mailing list. I hear mailman 3 might be > tossing this facility; I am unimpressed.)
I'll clarify briefly. The archives are from a now-defunct mailing list which accumulated about 190k posts during its nearly ten-year life. The only interface to the archives is a rather feeble search interface. There is no way to just read through the archives in chronological fashion. I know Google Groups isn't very popular here, but trust me, it would provide a much better interface to these archives than the current search interface. I will obviously verify that the messages can be read through GG before dumping all of them into this archive. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
