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Re: Old Messages..

To: "Dave Cairns" <dexin@aztec-net.com>, "Bricklin" <bricklin@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Old Messages..
From: "Greg Monfort" <wingracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 18:20:27 -0500
This is a post I got when I asked the same question and never got around to
seeing if it works.

GM
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From: Mark J Bradakis
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 1997 12:56 PM
To: GREGORY MONFORT
Cc: bricklin@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Archives


Yes, there is a way to see the old mail.  This list is run with a majordomo
server, which has 'index' and 'get' functions.  You send mail to
majordomo@autox.team.net with nothing but

   index bricklin

in the body of the message.   Some time later, you'll get back a message
from
majordomo that looks like:

  From: Majordomo@autox.team.net
  Subject: Majordomo results
  Reply-To: Majordomo@autox.team.net

--

>>>> index bricklin
total 726
-rw-rw----   1 root     mailadmin  38507 Feb 28 15:13 bricklin.archive.9702
-rw-rw----   1 root     mailadmin  69704 Mar 24 15:16 bricklin.archive.9703
-rw-rw----   1 root     mailadmin 152421 Apr 30 17:41 bricklin.archive.9704
-rw-rw----   1 root     mailadmin  86410 May 31 07:25 bricklin.archive.9705
-rw-rw----   1 root     mailadmin  10406 Jun  4 21:21 bricklin.archive.9706
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   Unix filesystem stuff            size     date             name
                                   (bytes)


What this is telling you is that the bricklin list is archived on a monthly
basis, as the suffix of the filenames indicates.  9706 is June of 97, 9705
is May, and so on.  Once you have the list of names (well, if you are
reading
this, the list of names is included, no real need for the 'index' step) you
can get the file you want by sending mail to majordomo @autox.team.net with
commands like


get bricklin bricklin.archive.9702
get bricklin bricklin.archive.9704
get bricklin bricklin.archive.9706


Majordomo will then mail back a text file that has all the mail for the
month in it.  RealSoonNow I'll have some sort of web searchable archive
for the lists run here.  If you want to see what the other lists are, send
the command

  lists

to majordomo@autox.team.net

mjb.






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