Re: Mailing List Archives

["Ranjit Mathew" <rmathew at hotmail dot com>]

> Ranjit> The mailing list mbox-formatted archives link for
> Ranjit> April, May and June 2000 refer to sourceware.cygnus.com
> Ranjit> on this page:
> Ranjit>     http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/
>
> Bogus.

What? You mean my report is bogus! :-)


> Ranjit> I could actually find these archives in:
> Ranjit>     ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/java/mail-archives/
> Ranjit> It also contains archives for earlier periods, though
> Ranjit> sadly, not for 1998 (and before?). (Can anyone supply
> Ranjit> these from private mail archives? The earliest archive
> Ranjit> I could find is from 1999-02.)
>
> I don't have anything saved.  Maybe nobody does.  I logged in to
> sources and looked around a little, but I didn't see anything :-(.
> You could ask on overseers, maybe someone there knows.

What is (or who are) "overseers"?


> Ranjit> I would have submitted a patch for correcting this
> Ranjit> if only I knew where this is being shown from. :-)
>
> I think these pages are handled specially.  Could you report this to
> overseers?  "sourceware.cygnus.com" died a long time ago.

Maybe, but it had this page of historic signifcance to GCJ:

http://web.archive.org/web/19981206205252/http://sourceware.cygnus.com/java/

Similarly on www.cygnus.com:

http://web.archive.org/web/19981205062731/http://www.cygnus.com/product/javalang/

I love the "Wayback Machine" from the Internet Archive!

:-)

Ranjit.

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