Doc wrote... To my knowledge anyways, I don't believe mailman will deal with maildir format. I think it requires it's files to be mbox. I did get a utility that would expand an mbox file to a psuedo maildir format (not as an end in itself, but just to do it's work), then de-dupe the resulting messages, sort them, and rebuild the mailbox files with any date range you wanted. However, after I tried to use it I noticed it was extremely slow. So I dug into the code a bit, and it was using the unix filesystem to perform it's sort. Argh! So I pitched that approach :) Anyways, things are progressing... one thing I can't figure out exactly what to do with. The classiccmp list was originally one list, "classiccmp". Then it split into cctech and cctalk. There's never any posts to cctech that don't automatically wind up on cctalk, so there's really not much sense in maintaining a cctech archive. However, members of cctech by default can't see the cctalk archives and vice versa. So it's easiest to just let them each have their own archives, no big deal. But where do I put the archives before the split? Doesn't appear to be an easy way to set up a dummy list for the old classiccmp and even if there was - it's silly to expect someone doing research to have to search two or three lists separately. What seems to make the most sense to me is to put the classiccmp archives in the cctalk archives. That's logical anyways, because cctech was the actual splitoff. Hummm we'll see. Jay

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Jay West wrote: Can't you symlink pre-split-cctech --> old-classiccmp pre-split-cctalk --> old-classiccmp so each would have a "tech" or "talk" in the current schema?