[geeks] Merge archive of two mailing lists?

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:34:02AM -0400, William Enestvedt wrote:
> Can anyone say whether it's possible for a Mailman list to absorb/import
> the archives of an L-Soft LISTSERV list?
>    I'm on a mailing list (hosted by ibiblio.org) running Mailman. All
> well and good. Another mailing list is being shut down by its host, the
> Univ. of Buffalo, and they use LISTSERV. If they are willing to send
> over the archives, would the ibiblio admins even be able to combine the
> archives? Or should we not even try to "cross the streams"?
>    As a second choice, could ibiblio convert the LISTSERV archives so
> that Mailman could still share them out?

If you can get them in MBOX format, you can just cat them to the existing
mbox archive files that mailman creates, and then re-run arch to regen the
web archives.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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