Yes, there is a way to see the old mail. This list is run with a majordomo
server, which has 'index' and 'get' functions. You send mail to
majordomo@autox.team.net with nothing but
index bricklin
in the body of the message. Some time later, you'll get back a message from
majordomo that looks like:
From: Majordomo@autox.team.net
Subject: Majordomo results
Reply-To: Majordomo@autox.team.net
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>>>> index bricklin
total 726
-rw-rw---- 1 root mailadmin 38507 Feb 28 15:13 bricklin.archive.9702
-rw-rw---- 1 root mailadmin 69704 Mar 24 15:16 bricklin.archive.9703
-rw-rw---- 1 root mailadmin 152421 Apr 30 17:41 bricklin.archive.9704
-rw-rw---- 1 root mailadmin 86410 May 31 07:25 bricklin.archive.9705
-rw-rw---- 1 root mailadmin 10406 Jun 4 21:21 bricklin.archive.9706
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Unix filesystem stuff size date name
(bytes)
What this is telling you is that the bricklin list is archived on a monthly
basis, as the suffix of the filenames indicates. 9706 is June of 97, 9705
is May, and so on. Once you have the list of names (well, if you are reading
this, the list of names is included, no real need for the 'index' step) you
can get the file you want by sending mail to majordomo @autox.team.net with
commands like
get bricklin bricklin.archive.9702
get bricklin bricklin.archive.9704
get bricklin bricklin.archive.9706
Majordomo will then mail back a text file that has all the mail for the
month in it. RealSoonNow I'll have some sort of web searchable archive
for the lists run here. If you want to see what the other lists are, send
the command
lists
to majordomo@autox.team.net
mjb.
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