Mailing list archives?

Fri May 27 23:15:13 PDT 2005

At 5:47 PM -0700 5/27/05, David Wolfskill wrote:
>On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 05:28:25PM -0700, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
>>  Perhaps I'm just overlooking sometthing, but I can't seem to find the
>>  mailing list archives. Could somebody
>>  point me to them?
>
>They're in www.baylisa.org:/export/home/majordomo/archive.
>
>However, we do not currently have a way to access them other than via
>logging in to the machine.
>
>Now, if someone wants to volunteer to help put together a mechanism to
>provide (say) Web access to the archives, please send mail to
>blw at baylisa.org -- or services-tf at baylisa.org.

I use MHonArc (http://www.mhonarc.org/) for the lists that we host 
here (see, for example, 
http://www.greatcircle.com/lists/majordomo-users/archive.html), with 
some heavily customized config file to get the "look & feel" of the 
archives you see.

Our config file and associated shell scripts ("mhonarc.daily" is 
designed to be run as a daily cron job; it invokes "mkarchive", which 
does a bunch of stuff and then in turn invokes mhonarc with the 
custom config file) are available from

	ftp://ftp.greatcircle.com/hidden/mhonarc-stuff.tar.gz

There are 3 files in that tarball:

mhonarc.rc is the config file for MHonArc.  I'm using version 2.5.2 
of MHonArc; there are later versions available, and I expect that 
these config files will probably work with a later versions.

mhonarc.daily is a shell script that is run once a day as a cron job, 
to run MHonArc to generate the HTML pages from the original 
plain-text mail archives.

mkarchive is a Perl script, which is invoked by mhonarc.daily, and 
which does the actual work of running MHonArc and then generating 
appropriate top-level index pages and such.

Good luck!

-Brent
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