[BLU/Officers] Rebuilding BLU discuss list archive

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Good work.

On 08/03/2011 10:24 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> A while back I had set up an offsite list archive for discuss at gmame.org,
> and last night I found I was able to retrieve everything from the list
> in the form of USENET news messages, using the "nget" command.
> USENET messages are very similar to mbox mail messages.
>
> Starting with an ancient backup of the list archive from May 2007,
> I produced a couple message sets from the gmame download.
> One set spanned the gap between the last message I had from May 2007
> and the first message in the list archive on cheyenne, from May 2011.
> The second set comprises the missing messages from when the
> md device on pegasus hiccupped and we lost a week of traffic when
> rebooting from a disk that was offline for a week.
>
> I was able to convert the two sets into mbox archives and then
> concatenate everything into a complete archive for the discuss list.
> I'm currently waiting for Mailman's arch command to finish rebuilding
> the html files, after which the local discuss list archive will once again
> be complete.
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