From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: Archiving linux-block From: Jens Axboe To: Bart Van Assche , "hch@lst.de" Cc: "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" References: <1504621159.4135.15.camel@wdc.com> <1504703610.7750.3.camel@wdc.com> Message-ID: <060260ac-ba24-dbd0-8bcf-2d8308e928b3@kernel.dk> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 08:13:34 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 List-ID: On 09/06/2017 08:10 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 09/06/2017 07:13 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 08:33 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >>> On 09/05/2017 08:19 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: >>>> Since gmane.org is no longer operational linux-block messages are no longer >>>> archived. I think it's useful to archive linux-block messages because it >>>> makes it possible to review past discussions, especially for people who are >>>> not subscribed to the list. How about activating archival by mail-archive.com >>>> and spinics.net? As far as I know this can only be done by someone who is list >>>> administrator. But I don't know who the linux-block list administrator(s) are? >>> >>> I always use marc.info: >>> >>> https://marc.info/?l=linux-block >>> >>> If we want to add it elsewhere, that's fine with me. I'm probably the admin, >>> I was the one that asked for the list to be created. >> >> Thanks Jens for the feedback. What I tried yesterday morning was to look up a >> linux-block message by searching for its contents with a web search engine. That >> search did not yield any results. Does this mean that messages on marc.info are >> not indexed by Google? Is this a sufficient reason to let an additional web site >> archive the linux-block messages? > > Definitely, it'd be nice to have it be searchable. That's half the utility of > an archive... > > I'll see if I can get mail-archive.com setup. spinics already has it, fwiw: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/ -- Jens Axboe