Re: archive threads across months (was Re: [HACKERS]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Jim Nasby wrote:

> On Jun 10, 2006, at 12:20 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 
>>> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
>>>> (The fact that archives.p.o can't properly link between threads that
>>>> cross month boundaries is pretty annoying...)
>>> 
>>> Indeed, I was just annoyed by that (again) a few minutes ago.  Anyone
>>> on -www have an idea how to fix it?
>> 
>> Someone that knows mhonarc better then I might know of a way, but, I don't 
>> believe cross-month linking is actually possible ...
>> 
>> majordomo stores archives by month in mbox format ... mhonarc processes 
>> each month and deposits it into a directory YYYY-MM ... without merging all 
>> of the mbox files into one huge archive file, and eliminating the YYYY-MM 
>> subdirectories, I don't believe that you could do this ...
>> 
>> But, as I said, someone with more knowledge about mhonarc may know a way of 
>> doing this ... ?
>
> Are we wed to mhonarc? Is there another archiving tool we could use?

I'll never say we're *wed* to anything ... do you know of another 
archiving tool?

I think the first question is are there any other ones that offer the 
functionality that Tom is asking for ... ?

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