On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Niels ten Oever <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 09:04:27AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter 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 question of which
> > archive is authoritative has not been raised up till now.
>
> They should be identical, in theory, I think.
Problem is that they are not - so I think we should run an sync on the archives and seek out where they are out of sync. Who should I reach out to for this? Happy to help find anomalies.
Best,
Niels
> And of course some
> older lists have been lost, I believe,from the time before all
> lists were hosted at ietf.org.
>
> Brian
>
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