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Karl M Hegbloom <karlheg> writes:

> A `smartlist' archive server would be good.  I've never used one or
> set one up, but have read a little about it.  It doesn't sound too
> hard to do.

We *have* a smartlist server and all the messages in a smartlist
archive.  I've heard reports that it doesn't work, but haven't looked
into it myself.

> We could then send search commands to it, with grep regex's in them,
> and it will return digests of the matching messages.

=======================================
                        The archive server
                        ------------------
Every submission sent to this list is archived.  The size of the
archive depends on the limits set by the list maintainer (it is
very well possible that only, say, the last two mails sent to the
list are still archived, the rest might have expired).

You can look at the header of every mail coming from this list to
see under what name it has been archived.  The X-Mailing-List:
field contains the mailaddress of the list and the file in which
this submission was archived.

If you want to access this archive, you have to send mails to the
-request address with the word "archive" as the first word of
your Subject:.  To get you started try sending a mail to the
-request address with the following:

                Subject: archive help
=======================================
This archive server knows the following commands:

    get      filename ...
    ls       directory ...
    egrep    case_insensitive_regular_expression filename ...
    maxfiles nnn
    version

Aliases for 'get': send, sendme, getme, gimme, retrieve, mail
Aliases for 'ls': dir, directory, list, show
Aliases for 'egrep': search, grep, fgrep, find

* Lines starting with a '#' are ignored.

* Multiple commands per mail are allowed.

* Setting maxfiles to zero will remove the limit (to protect you
  against yourself no more than maxfiles files will be returned
  per request).

* Egrep supports most common flags.

Examples:

    ls latest
    get latest/12
    egrep some.word latest/*

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