+ Konstantin On Wednesday 22 July 2020 10:43:15 Pali Rohár wrote: > 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? I would really like to see ath9k-devel archive available & searchable in lore web service. Konstantin, do you think it is possible? > > 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.
