On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 12:17:09PM -0800, Thomas Dzubin wrote: The whole cctalk list was lost and re-created from scratch, and I guess that includes the archives. The Wayback Machine indexed cctalk before the crash, so you can download the archives from there. Howver, it's a bit tedious to grab the whole lot, so I'll stick a copy on my webspace at http://abuse.mooli.org.uk/cctalk/ It's still uploading because BT will only give this this corner of Islington wet string rather than broadband (and Virgin Media can't even keep their string moist), but there will eventually be two files: cctalk-upstream-txtgz.zip A zipfile containing all of the original "downloadable version"s of the archive from 2005-February.txt.gz through 2014-October.txt.gz. cctalk-maildir.tpxz The messages from above, massaged into a Maildir++ mailbox with folders cctalk/2005 through cctalk/2014, tarred and xz-compressed. This will make most sense to users who run their own IMAP server on Unix as they can just merge it in to their existing mailbox and let their MUA do the indexing and searching. It's not all in one folder because that's about 200k messages which is a bit unwieldy, but splitting by year gives roughly 20k messages per mailbox which is much more tractable. The exact range of message dates archived is 2005-02-26 20:15:19 through 2014-10-02 08:31:19 (all UTC).