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[Adrian Aichner]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Steve Youngs writes:
>
>  > I'm very happy with MHonArc <http://www.mhonarc.org/> for my archiving,
>  > which uses Namazu <http://www.namazu.org/> for searching.  There are
>
> Can you search on Message-IDs?  I don't know if anybody else cares (if
> so, please speak up, because otherwise I'm going to assume nobody else

I speak up.

This feature will be vital in case I need to rewire URLs into the
message archive from the website.

Adrian

> does care), but that is a feature that's important to me personally.
>
>  > example archives listed on the MHonArc site, and mine are at...
>  > 
>  >   <http://www.sxemacs.org/list-archives/html/>
>
>  > It would be a trivial matter for me to host XEmacs list archives as
>  > well.  And if anyone can get the old mbox files to me I can have the
>  > full archives back up complete with search ability.
>
> OK, guys, what do we want to do with the spam in the two years
> immediately preceding the currently available archives?  It may be
> over 50% on average; there are some lists (low-traffic) that are 90%
> spam (IIRC).
>
> The issue is trying to preserve the internal links from one post to
> another, which if we just clean out the spam the MHonArc message URLs
> (which are based on order of messages in the archive), the links will
> all change.
>
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