Hi Ho! --- On Wed, 6/25/08, "Mojmir Svoboda" <mojmir.svoboda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hello, > > pardon my stupid question, but these gcc-get and gcc-thread.*@gcc.gnu.org > and similar commands - do they actually work? Yes, they are. > i'd like to get for example messages from gcc mailing list's messages > from last 6 months. Browse the GCC mailing list archives first to find the starting archive ID of the first e-mail posted at the beginning of the last 6 months. Then, send an empty e-mail to: gcc-get.[START]_[END]@gcc.gnu.org But, beware that the maximum is 100 per request. > or - are there archives in mbox format perhaps? AFAIK, nope. > many thanks, > mojmir Best regards, Eus