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[Gerard Beekmans]

> Or compress them.  Maybe make them only available to subscribed  
> members. I wanted to grab the last two months of the blfs-support  
> mailing list archive.
> Maybe someone can email me the files.

Compressing is an option but would also require some Mailman 
modifications, or a helper script running through cron - the various 
files that make up an archive are automatically updated each time an 
email arrives (ie email contents is appended to an mbox and txt file). 
We don't want to run bzip2 on the mbox or monthly txt files each time an 
email arrives. The compress operation would take a while and a half 
dozen more emails could arrive, making that a never ending cycle.

A nightly or weekly snapshot would be a compromise there.

In the mean time I'll send you the last two months of blfs-support to 
your email address in a few minutes when I have it tar'ed up for you.

G