Re: mbox formatted archive for current month

[Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:21:19PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Obviously it would be incomplete and generated every night,
> 
> And downloaded every day by lots of people?  I can see the bandwidth
> going up...

What's the likelihood of that happening?  If it's high, then why not
offer the current day in archive format?  That wouldn't be any
different from subscribing to the list-- actually the bandwith would
be less for this case because you would download the digest in one go,
and it'd be compressed.

> 
> > but it would be very useful for responding to current messages (if
> > one reads the list through news or web, and the server is down).
> 
> Can't you use the "raw text" option from the existing archives?
> That's what I do.  See:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/get-raw-msg?listname=gcc&date=2004-01&msgid=20040130041308.GA13854%40redhat.com

No because raw still adulters all the addresses, and thus can't be
read by "mutt -f FILE".  I guess one could write a tool to put the "@"
and "."'s back in, but having this readily available on the web page
is way cooler ;-).

Aldy