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From: Mark J Bradakis <mjb>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:37:16 -0700 (MST)
Send email to majordomo@autox.team.net with nothing but the two words

 index mgs

in the body of the message.  What you will get back in return mail is a
large (about 55,000 chars long) message that looks in part like this:

--

>>>> index mgs
total 147082
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom mailadmin  10593 Feb 12  1997 editors
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom mailadmin 107552 Feb 28  1995 mgs.archive.9502
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom mailadmin 407586 Nov 16 23:55 mgs.archive.9503
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom mailadmin 736366 Nov 16 23:55 mgs.archive.9504
-rw-rw-r--   1 majordom mailadmin 736149 Nov 16 23:55 mgs.archive.9505
 ...
-rw-rw----   1 majordom mailadmin  69998 Feb  8 23:09 mgs.archive.980208
-rw-rw----   1 majordom mailadmin  79101 Feb  9 23:20 mgs.archive.980209
-rw-rw----   1 majordom mailadmin 125185 Feb 10 21:55 mgs.archive.980210
-rw-rw----   1 majordom mailadmin 213288 Feb 11 23:21 mgs.archive.980211
-rw-rw----   1 majordom mailadmin  53179 Feb 12 13:12 mgs.archive.980212


This is a listing of the files available for majordomo's 'get' command.
The important fields to notice are the filename and the file size:

-rw-rw----   1 majordom mailadmin 213288 Feb 11 23:21 mgs.archive.980211
                                  ^^^^^^              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                   Size                   Name

The name reflects the date of the archive, with the above example being
the mail from 02/11/98, and the size being 213,288 characters.  Notice how
the size of yesterday's mail is only half the size of the archive for
the ENTIRE month of March 1995.  Anyway, assuming your mailer can handle the
size of the files for the time you want, you request the archives with the
get command.  Send mail to majordomo@autox.team.net with lines like

get mgs mgs.archive.980212
get mgs mgs.archive.980211
get mgs mgs.archive.980210


You will get the requested files back in return mail.  RealSoonNow I'll have
searchable, web based access to these.  Yep, RealSoonNow.

mjb.

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