Subject: Re: mailing list moving

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:56:58 +0200

On Saturday 06 June 2009, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 19:08 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > I do, however, have the old archives, so maybe we can do something ...
> 
> We could use the old archive to work out the mapping between old and new
> and write a billion rewrite rules, but it'd probably crash the rewrite
> code - and if not slow the server to a crawl.
> 
> So into the too hard basket I think :)

How about just doing a 'wget -r' on the old archive and storing it
in some random directory on lists.ozlabs.org as static files?
Then you only need a single rewrite rule.

	Arnd <><