>PS: Re the Rietveld Mailing List Archive, this has been
>non functional for some time due to a Hacker attack on
>the Webserver that was holding this information.
>
>Volunteers to set up an alternative are welcome.
>(is somewhere on my list of "would like to do" as
>well)
Done (more or less).
Archiving should be operational in a few days at :
http://www.mail-archive.com/
Below is a part of the FAQ of this simple service :
>
> How can I archive a public list?
> 1.Subscribe archive@jab.org to the mailing list.
> 2.Many lists send either a confirmation or acknowledgement here.
> Take care of any confirmations that the list requires.
>
> During normal operation, email is archived shortly after it is
> received. In many cases, the new list will
> show up within 15 minutes. Sometimes, if there is a lot of mail
> flying about, it can take a much longer
> (over an hour) for messages to appear on the site. The new list
> will become searchable within one
> week.
>
> Can I delete a message from the archive?
> No.
>
> How can I import existing archives?
> Unfortunately, there is no easy way. Suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Here's a hard way. Don't try this if you are not something of a
> Unix email guru. If you have the old mail
> messages on hand, you may want to bounce them all right to the
> archiving address. By bounce, I mean
> send all the messages to the archiving address, but leave the
> headers as intact as possible. This is very
> different from forwarding, for which case all the To: headers
would
> be changed. The automatic sorting
> program looks at headers; as long as the original list name and
> dates are preserved in the mail headers,
> they will be archived correctly. If you disrupt the list name or
> dates in the headers (such as by
> forwarding the messages), it won't work.
So that, it seems possible to import existing archives (which I have not),
so that the Rietveld Mailing List could become finally a truely modern
Mailing List.
Armel Le Bail - Université du Maine, Laboratoire des Fluorures,
CNRS ESA 6010, Av. O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France
http://www.cristal.org/