stripped headers in mailing list archives.

[Lex Hider]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 16:41 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> On vr, 2004-12-03 at 12:00 +1100, Lex Hider wrote:
> > Having just subscribed to the lists I like to get the past discussions
> > into my mail app.
> > 
> > A simple:
> > "wget -nd -c -r -l1 -A gz
> > http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/"
> > 
> > downloads all the 2004-<Month>.txt.gz for the list.
> > 
> > to make a mbox I just gunzip and cat to one file.
> > 
> > It appears that most of the headers have been filtered out of these
> > files and so I can't filter these emails because headers like to: and
> > list-id: appear to be missing.
> > 
> > 
> > Now is this a feature and I'm doing something wrong, or is this a
> > problem with the list archives?
> > 
> > Lex.
> > 
> > 
> 
> You can get the full mbox file from the top of the page:
> 
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users.mbox/ubuntu-users.mbox
> 
yeah, I did realize that, but it isn't compressed and it is a moving
target [it changes regularly].

I really can't complain because it's really annoying when mailing list
archives aren't available for download and Ubuntu DOES provide them.

What's the reason for difference between the *.gz and other files.
The 2004-<Month>.txt.gz file from mail.gnome.org doesn't appear to have
any headers missing.

> Regards,
> Ruben Vermeersch
> 
> -- 
> Ruben Vermeersch
> http://www.Lambda1.be/
> 
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