Re: [RFC] LKML Archive in Maildir Format

From: Joey Pabalinas
Date: Tue Dec 18 2018 - 17:53:09 EST


On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 09:26:27PM +0100, Jasper Spaans wrote:
> Now you've caught my attention; first of all, there are more than 3M
> messages stored in the lkml.org datase, so I guess you've missed some
> messages or something is really broken.
>
> Besides, unless you figured out how to get to the raw data, you've just
> scraped a rendering which discards stuff like pgp signatures etc and has
> very incomplete headers. Unless you don't care for those of course :)
>
> Note that I've also been toying with the lore dataset, and wrote a tiny tool
> to get Maildir-like data out of it; this code is a bit of a single-use-jig
> so you'll need to do some coding if you really want to use it. Attached
> anyway.

Yeah, after looking closer at it last week, something here is very
weird. This is definitely far from complete.

When I have some free time I'm just going to give it another go with
the public-inbox conversion.

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Cheers,
Joey Pabalinas

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