On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:15:35 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 02:02:28PM -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
>> Some of the lists I'm on even offer downloadable archives of past
>> messages, if I find a thread I'd like to read via their web interface, I
>> can grab that month's worth of messages and import them into my mail
>> files and read it in mutt, threaded, hopping around much more quickly
>> than any web browser would let me.
> 
> Yes, I would very much like to see the list archives being available in
> mbox format, say in monthly chunks, so users can easily download them and
> jump into threads on lists they're not subscribed to.  

News archives at gmane.org are useful for jumping into threads.

Bye	Pavel