Re: [boost] archive of mailing list?

From: brent verner (brent_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-14 10:38:56

On 14 Aug 2000 at 10:49 (-0400), Beman Dawes wrote:
| brent verner wrote:
| 
|  >   How can I get an mbox formatted archive of the list?
| 
| AFAIK, there isn't a direct way to get an archive out of eGroups.
| 
| It would be easy to write a little script, say in Python using urllib, to 
| read each of the messages, strip out the extraneous HTML, and build 
| archive.
| 
| The messages can be retrieved with a URL in the form 
| "http://www.egroups.com/message/boost/1234" where 1234 is the message 
| number.
| 
| Any volunteers?

you know, I thougt about that, but after realizing that the email 
addresses were hidden, I though maybe someone out there had an mbox
archive hanging around their mail dir... :)

  Brent

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