On Friday 10 July 2020 15:00:25 Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > The ath9k-devel mailing list was closed in 2017 in favor of > linux-wireless (per > https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k), but the > archives contain information that may still be useful. > > For instance, Pali just sent me a link > (https://www.mail-archive.com/ath9k-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg07529.html) > about an issue with PCI enumeration. I would like to see ath9k-devel archive available in some searchable and indexed form too! pipermail is not really usable. > The ath9k-devel archive still seems to exist at > https://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/ and > https://www.mail-archive.com/ath9k-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > https://korg.docs.kernel.org/lore.html says pipermail archives *can* > be used, but it's better to start with something else. > > Is anybody interested in adding the ath9k-devel archives to lore? If > so, does anybody have an archive to start with? In most cases, pipermail/mailman is configured to save unmodified copy (with all attachments and headers) of every incoming email to some mbox archive stored on server, which is available to server admins. This mbox archive is not available for download via web interface, so it is not public and some SSH access to server is required for obtaining it. Admins of lists.ath9k.org could have access to full ath9k-devel mbox archive which is suitable for importing into any indexing service, like lore. Public pipermail archive has downloadable GZIP version of all emails, but it is stripped of all attachments and have mangled all strings in headers and body which may look like an email address. So this public pipermail archive is not very usable. In past I did some research work on topic how to archive, parse and index emails from mailing lists and I have scripts which could de-mangle pipermail public archives and generate from it valid mbox archive.
