On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 08:22:27AM -0400, David W. Talmage wrote:
> >Being able to look at the mail archive one message at a time is
> >better than nothing, but lacking any ability to search the content,
> >we need to be able to download an entire MONTH's worth of
> >messages.  There are SO many times I need to refer to previous
> 
> If you have AFS, you can grep all of the NetBSD mailing list archives.  I grep 
> the mirror at /afs/iastate.edu/public/ftp/pub/NetBSD.

ftp.netbsd.org(or a mirror):/pub/NetBSD/mailing-lists/[listname]
contains 50Kish chunks of mailing lists. 50K ranges from part of
a day to several days.

grepmail (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q/code/index.html) works
very nicely on these I find.

-- 
David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net --> Mastery of UNIX, like
mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always dear,
but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live
in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. - Thomas Scoville