On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 5:04 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 13/07/2018 08:40, S Moonesamy wrote: >> Hi Niels, >> At 05:46 AM 12-07-2018, Niels ten Oever wrote: >>> One start in April 2015, and the other starts in October 2014. This can >> >> I suggest contacting ietf-action@ about the above. >> >>> be attributed to a mailinglist migration, but it begs the question which >>> archive is authoritative, and why are there two different archives? >> >> The MHonarc archives used to be the archives of the IETF mailing >> lists. In 2012, there were a new set of requirements for archiving >> IETF mailing lists. mailarchive.ietf.org was implemented a few years >> back. I vaguely recall that the IAOC discussed about whether to keep >> MHonarc running. As there hasn't been any decision to turn off >> MHonarc, there are two mailing list archives. > > Some people still greatly prefer MHonarc. I've been trying to train > myself to use the new format... The new format is improving too, so thanks to all that are working on it! > >> The question of which >> archive is authoritative has not been raised up till now. > > They should be identical, in theory, I think. And of course some > older lists have been lost, I believe,from the time before all > lists were hosted at ietf.org. > > Brian > -- Best regards, Kathleen
