Hi,

I have an automated archiving system so that I can have the list
available on my laptop when I don't have Internet connectivity.  It
automatically makes a copy of any incoming emails into an "archive" folder.

I have all the list emails (that reached me) in a single file (per year)
in a very standard, text format called "mbox".  This is the historical
format for email storage in the Unix world.

I've got archives back to about March 2006.

I did miss about a month in 2014 of email when my personal email server
was down & it was going to a backup and not getting archived.

2015 zips up to 5 meg.

$ ls -l
total 1571968
-rw-------  1 steve  steve   45,587,317 Nov 27  2011 2006
-rw-------  1 steve  steve  100,778,802 May 14  2010 2007
-rw-------  1 steve  steve   98,554,735 Nov 27  2011 2008
-rw-------  1 steve  steve   87,731,270 May 14  2010 2009
-rw-------  1 steve  steve   98,490,119 Nov 27  2011 2010
-rw-------  1 steve  steve  101,425,086 Feb 12  2012 2011
-rw-------  1 steve  steve   95,416,444 Jan  3  2013 2012
-rw-------  1 steve  steve   90,310,624 Jan  3  2014 2013
-rw-------  1 steve  steve   65,278,136 Feb  3 22:53 2014
-rw-------  1 steve  steve   20,787,145 May  1 17:51 2015

I'm not sure if anyone could benefit from this, but I thought I'd throw
it out there.

Cheers,
Steve Williams

On 01/05/2015 1:01 PM, Ben wrote:Hi,

> If you will recall, we had a List meltdown recently where a disc drive went kaput and required replacement. On top on that, there was a paid subscription service which was interrupted.
>
> Perhaps List Admin can answer your question as this moderator does not have access to the List server.
>
>
> BenT
> Mod
>
>
>> On May 1, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote:
>>
>> I think Neil misunderstands the problem.
>>
>> To demonstrate the problem I did a search for messages containing
>> "Dennis" from January 2015 to April 2015.  I got 60 hits, all from
>> 15/04/06 to 15/04/30.  What happened to the messages from January 1,
>> 2015 through April 5, 2015.  I know Dennis Haynes wrote some messages
>> during this period.
>>
>> How about a response from one of the moderators?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, 1 May 2015 09:09:38 -0700, Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>> FWIW, I just used "April 2015" to "April 2015" parameters and got
>> results.
>>> Also, http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html    ?
>>>
>>> Neil.
>>>
>>>> On 5/1/15, Ed McLean <email99@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No one responded to this question.  Have these archives been totally
>> lost
>>>> or are they still searchable?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:47:02 -0400, email99@bellsouth.net
>>>> <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Were the 2015 list archives through the first week of April lost in
>> the
>>>>> recent server difficulties?  They don't seem to be available at
>>>>> http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html .
>>>
>>> --
>>> Neil n
>>>
>>> Blog: Vanagons, Westfalia, general <http://tubaneil.blogspot.ca>
>>>
>>> 1988 Westy Images <https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/New1988Westy>
>>>
>>> 1981 Westfalia "Jaco" Images, technical
>> <http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/>
>>> Vanagon-Bus VAG Gas Engine Swap Group <http://tinyurl.com/khalbay>