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'''The Mail Archive''' is what it sounds like; it's an ad-supported mailing list archive that users can add arbitrary mailing lists to. Started in 1998, it currently holds 117,561.072 archived postings on 4.517 mailing lists as of May 2015.
'''The Mail Archive''' is what it sounds like; it's an ad-supported mailing list archive that users can add arbitrary mailing lists to. Started in 1998, it currently holds 121,034,946 archived postings, on 4,314 mailing lists as of October 2015.


== Possible leads ==  
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We could use this as a starting point by parsing the OPML to get a sitemap for future web-scraping.
We could use this as a starting point by parsing the OPML to get a sitemap for future web-scraping.
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Revision as of 04:16, 13 October 2015

The Mail Archive
URL mail-archive.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Online!
Archiving status Not saved yet
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

The Mail Archive is what it sounds like; it's an ad-supported mailing list archive that users can add arbitrary mailing lists to. Started in 1998, it currently holds 121,034,946 archived postings, on 4,314 mailing lists as of October 2015.

Possible leads

List of mailing lists (in OPML format)

We could use this as a starting point by parsing the OPML to get a sitemap for future web-scraping.