On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:56:25 +0100
Gilbert Fernandes <gilbert.fernandes@spamcop.net> wrote:

> 
> Hello.
> 
> I hope this is the good list for this question.
> 
> I am trying to recover the NetBSD mailing-lists, so I would be able
> to put on Internet mbox files for each mailing-list, year by year.
> This would let me, and other people, grab mbox files and use them
> from their favorite client :)
> 
> So I sent majordomo a "index list_name" command. It reports
> something like this :
> 
> >>>> index netbsd-advocacy
> total 181432
> -rw-r--r--  1 alias  daemon       34 Jan 15 09:07 .config
> -rw-r--r--  1 alias  daemon   309377 Jan 29 01:18 .current
> -rw-r--r--  1 alias  daemon     1874 Jan 15 09:07 info
> -rw-r--r--  1 alias  daemon  2500858 Jul 25  1999 netbsd-advocacy.0000
> 
> So then I tried to ask majordomo to sent me the first
> file, by sending an email to it with command "get netbsd-advocacy.0000"

You must also specify a list name in your request.

> I was hoping I could grab each file, concatenate them and produce
> a big mbox file for each mailing-list and then cut it year by year
> (in fact, the aim would be to put a script that would cut it with
> your own settings and then you can grab the cutted down mbox files)
> 
> But trying to use the get command seems to fail on me :
> 
> >>>> get netbsd-advocacy.0000
> **** get: unknown list 'netbsd-advocacy.0000'.
> >>>>
> 
> Am I using it improperly ?

Sent the following command to majordomo@ (you must also be subscribed):

	get netbsd-advocacy netbsd-advocacy.0000

--
Mishka.