Mailing Lists

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Mailing lists
Status Unknown
Archiving status Not saved yet
Archiving type Unknown
Project source mailing-lists-grab
IRC channel #flaming-lists (on hackint)

Mailing lists are a type of discussion group that is a precursor to forums (like Discourse) and is declining in popularity as email declines in use, being replaced by forums, and then social media. Existing mailing lists have a lot of history that would be useful to save.

Requirements

  • Some sites only support TLS 1.0, or maybe even SSL 3 or earlier
  • Some software (notably Sympa) or sites need POST plus a cookie to get otherwise public archives

Sources

There are some things that could be useful to find mailing list services/software:

Services

There are a number of notable services that include mailing lists, some have public archives:

Message-Id lookup

There are some services that offer Message-Id lookup. It is important that we archive both the Message-Id based URLs and the URLs they redirect to. We should also extract the Message-Ids from every message to develop a mapping between Message-Ids and URLs, and later create a service for searching that. 

http://mid.gmane.org/alpine.BSF.2.00.1004291655110.61392@x.fncre.vasb
nntp://news.gmane.io/65491cda.c80a0220.5fa79.7688SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=alpine.BSF.2.00.1004291655110.61392@x.fncre.vasb
https://marc.info/?i=Prayer.1.0.18.0811191202370.4107@sabinus.cs.umn.edu
http://mid.mail-archive.com/9dc4201d0807272359r1f0ad9d6ta44f31f439de58b7@mail.gmail.com
https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=9dc4201d0807272359r1f0ad9d6ta44f31f439de58b7@mail.gmail.com
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=mid&id=199802242058.MAA24843@monk.via.net
https://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=mid&id=199802242058.MAA24843@monk.via.net
https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=mid&id=199802242058.MAA24843@monk.via.net
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20050606213954.GC884@finlandia.infodrom.north.de
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/?m=YvogMm/B0cM/AUMu@einval.com
https://lists.debconf.org/cgi-lurker/keyword.cgi?doc-url=/lurker&format=en.html&query=id:87vey4ogcj.fsf@vorlon.ganneff.de
https://www.w3.org/mid/alpine.BSF.2.00.1004291655110.61392@x.fncre.vasb
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20060419051850.96025.qmail@web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com
https://public-inbox.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504150753440.7211@ppc970.osdl.org
https://article.olduse.net/40478@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?STYPE=msgid&A=0&MSGI=<usenet-hier-faq-1516003264%246620%40hope.eyrie.org>
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20181020134908.GA32218@kroah.com/
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20181020134908.GA32218@kroah.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20181020134908.GA32218@kroah.com/
https://yhbt.net/lore/all/20181020134908.GA32218@kroah.com/
https://public-inbox.org/git/1486427537.16949.42.camel@bonedaddy.net/
https://www.43-1.org/app/nntp/mid/20050606213954.GC884@finlandia.infodrom.north.de
https://forum.dlang.org/post/d19o8m$1jlj$1@digitaldaemon.com
https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/;msgid=01041316021102.03716%40localhost.localdomain
https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/nmweb/show/156832191038.4937.14365134928759130092%40fireG0
https://www.ctan.org/ctan-ann/id/mailman.3878.1440779487.4386.ctan-ann@dante.de
lists.sr.ht graphql API
https://archives.spi-inc.org/message-id/14d2a7e9-3269-d881-7f15-506bbf78299f%40spi-inc.org
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/aDWfDI03I-Rakopb%40petertodd.org

Software

There are lots of software for mailing lists that have instances with public archives:

Tools

These are some pages of and individual tools that are useful for archiving mailing lists:

Projects

These are some former archiving projects by ArchiveTeam that involved mailing lists:

Pages

There are a number of wiki pages that mention mailing lists in some way.

Articles

There are some articles about hosting mailing lists that may be useful.

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