How to get archives of lists Dave Wells dwells@zekes.com WB7ONJ Listowner: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com Listowner: HOWE-L@rootsweb.com > > The Rootsweb mailing lists are generally set up with > two directories that you are interested in. The individual > messages are in a directory called "latest" that you can > access by writing to XYZ-L-request@rootsweb.com, while > the digests are in a directory called "volume97" that > you can access by writing to XYZ-D-request@rootsweb.com. > > In either case, the messages have filenames that are > simply decimal numbers, "1" through however many > messages have been archived. There might be a few > other administrative files that have names that don't > follow that pattern. > > To access the message archives for the XYZ-L mailing > list, send a message to XYZ-L-request@rootsweb.com that > has the word > > archive > > and nothing else in the subject. > > To get a list of the messages, with the subject lines, > put > > search subject: latest/* > > in the body of the message. > After a while, you'll get back a message from rootsweb > that looks something like this: > > begin________cut here--------- > latest/1:15:Subject: XYZ-L is on line! > latest/10:15:Subject: Gwendolyn XYZ d. 1820 KY > latest/11:12:Subject: help with XYZ family > latest/12:12:Subject: Re: Gwendolyn XYZ d. 1820 KY > latest/13:15:Subject: Thomas XYZ m. Charlene ZZZ VA 1740 > latest/14:12:Subject: toner > latest/15:13:Subject: XYZ family in Kentucky > latest/16:15:Subject: Re: toner > latest/17:12:Subject: query > latest/18:13:How to unsubscribe from this list?????? > latest/19:15: Subject: Re: toner > latest/2:14:Subject:Re: XYZ-L is on line! > latest/20:13:Subject:Re: query > etc. > ----------------------- > > Now, let's assume you want to read the messages > about Gwendolyn. The file names are > latest/10 and latest/12, which is the part of each > line up to the first colon. The next number, between > the first two colons, is just the line number within > the message were the subject line appeared, and > the remainder of the line is the actual subject line. > > To get these two messages, send another message to > XYZ-L-request@rootsweb.com, with > > archive > > in the subject, and > > send latest/10 latest/12 > > in the body. > > After a while, you'll receive copies of the two > messages. They will come just as they were > originally sent. If your mailreader sorts incoming > mail by the "sent date", you'll have to look back > among the old messages in your inbox to find > them. > > If you just want to get all of the archived > messages, you can write to XYZ-D-request > instead of XYZ-L-request, with "archive" in the > subject, and put the following in the body of > your request: > > maxfiles 100 > send volume97/* > > If you don't put the "maxfiles 100" and there > happen to be more than sixteen messages in > the archive (which is likely), you'll just get an > error message. If there are more than 100 > messages, you'll still get an error message and > will probably want to request the archives > piecemeal rather than all at once. > > If you want to copy this material to your list, > changing "XYZ" to the appropriate surname, > go ahead. > > Glenn R-P > > --------- End forwarded message ---------- >