Re: The mbox format archives of linux-kernel are gone.

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 12:59:27AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
 > On Sunday 28 January 2007 8:52 pm, Oleg Verych wrote:
 > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:17:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:46:32 +0000
 > > > Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz> wrote:
 > > > 
 > > > > If somebody will get lkml mbox archive, can you import it into gmane,
 > > > > please.
 > > > 
 > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/lkml-mbox-archives/
 > > 
 > > I think, whole set, possibly from most active start years, say 1993, 1994
 > > or so, must be collected, then i can contact Lars to try to import all
 > > this into Gmane with current web links being preserved.
 > > 
 > > BTW, donwloading (big) sets of archives _from_ Gmane is strongly
 > > discouraged.
 > 
 > The very early archives are available on the web:
 > http://www.kclug.org/old_archives/linux-activists/
 > 
 > And I'm under the impression that Alan Cox once collected a complete set of 
 > mbox archives, but this is a vague an unfocused recollection of something 
 > going by years ago.  (I also thought the result was downloadable under 
 > kernel.org/pub somewhere.  This would not appear to be the case.)

ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/history/funet-archive/
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/Kernel/Documents/Old-Funet-Lists
has some of the really early stuff.

Until recently I had a bunch of mid 90s to early 2000's in mboxes too,
but a disk accident seems to have eaten the only copies I had.

		Dave

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