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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 11:14:49PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> > If you are curious, at a quieter time it might be useful to ask for
> > pointers to the discussions that led to the current design, and folks
> > on the list might be glad to help.
> 
> Will do.  The search on GMane is no good, and taking a local dump to
> search using real tools is just too painful; does someone already have
> a local dump?

Yes, I have a maildir with the complete list archive, which I index
using mairix (or sometimes grep if I'm doing something particularly
tricky). I find the search on gmane to be abysmal.

I'm happy to make my dump available to anyone who wants it, but it's
kind of big (about 1.4G uncompressed).

-Peff