[LV] Mailing list archives

[Alisdair Davey]

Maciej, it's certainly not abandonded, the admin just got very busy and 
the problem slipped out of his head. I know it's a pain but please bear 
with and I'll look into sorting this as it is now firmly on my radar!
And feel free to bug me if you don't hear from me really quickly!
Cheers
Alisdair

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> A mailing list without an archive is less than useful.  As some of you
> may have noticed such is our mailing list.  The archive page at
> http://mail.pergamentum.com/pipermail/linux-vax/ (referred to from the
> list home page at http://mail.pergamentum.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-vax)
> is broken.
>
> I notified the list admin back in May, got an ack, pinged him once or
> twice again, got no further response and the archive is still broken.  As
> it is I believe the list can be treated as abandoned and I think it would
> be reasonable to move the list to a place that is attended at least a
> little bit.  And with a working archive, of course. :)
>
> I have one possibility in mind, that is the linux-mips.org site -- I
> think I should ba able to arrange hosting there and we do have a decent
> archive (and spam filters) there.  Another possibility could be kernel.org
> (Jan-Benedict, what do you think?), though they only seem to rely on
> external archives and the admins can be harsh at times. ;)
>
> While doing this I think we should gather all the archives in one place
> -- the old ones at montana.edu are still in place and hopefully the site
> admin will send us a copy in a reasonable format.  The missing ones from
> pergamentum.com I could recreate from my personal e-mail archive; I hope
> no message has been dropped as I had occasional delivery problems.
>
> Comments?
>
>  Maciej
>
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