I will try to find a way to add these older items to the archives at https://lists.cpunks.org so it's findable there. (I'm the guy who currently runs Mailman and the server there.)
The .tar.bz2 file has 92,195 individual files. I appended them all to a single file, which email clients can open as an mbox file. But mailx reported 84519 messages, and mutt reported 84531.
I have temporarily put this combined file here, until I can add them to lists.cpunks.org somewhere under /var/lib/mailman:
All files concatenated as-is:
http://www.petascale.org/cypherpunks-1999-2015.mbox
md5sum: 2a4ed20b98411cfd18c69765b21c30d2 cypherpunks-1999-2015.mbox
Presumably the other ~7664 files have something that gives the email clients I tried indigestion. So I appended a blank line to each file, and then ran "formail -ds" on each file. Now mailx reports and mutt(neomutt) reports 96969 messages.
All files concatenated after being "fixed" as described:
http://www.petascale.org/cypherpunks-1999-2015-fixed.mbox
a08b619f3bcc92253dbd9140956c79ef cypherpunks-1999-2015-fixed.mbox
There are four messages from pre-1999. Then, lots from 1999 starting with:
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 02:32:36 -0800
From: Matthew X
I managed the extract that file successfully.
I uploaded the extract to GitHub if you wanna just git clone it instead:
https://github.com/cryptoanarchywiki/2000-to-2016-raw-cypherpunks-archive
On Fri, 6 Jul 2018, 5:40 am Steve Kinney,
wrote: On 07/05/2018 07:20 PM, juan wrote:
quote: From: "Riad S. Wahby"
Subject: Re: moving on Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 20:44:31 -0700 Done! This tarball goes back as far as 1999, though I'm not certain it's a complete archive. Note that prior to the LNE node, the list was 100% unfiltered, so what's below includes a decent amount of spam. All told, it's about 95k messages in Maildir format.
wget sez: HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
wget sez: HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
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I uploaded a copy of those archives here
Seems legit except 'extract' has been chewing on the file for 45 minutes now without spitting out any useful bits that I can see, while 'top' indicates 99% of CPU cycles dedicated to the task. It's kind of reassuring that 'extract' reports files in "GNU tar format" were found. But @126 MB I would expect /most/ archive files of this size to unpack in way less than a minute here.
amidoinitrite?
Has anybody got a verifiably useful copy?
:o)