We must preserve the Cypherpunks Mailing List archives! IMPORTANT!

[Greg Newby]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 06:30:37AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 07:26:21PM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 05:32:21AM -0700, Greg Newby wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > 
> > How long does it take opening them with Mutt?
> > 
> > My mutt takes more than 10 seconds to open mbox with about 11K messages
> > the first time.
> > 
> > Any workarounds for mutt?
> 
> notmutch-mutt
> 
> Or otherwise use notmuch to index all your email.
> 
> Instantaneosity FTW :)

Just a few seconds (under 5) on the systems I tried.

On a recent Macbook, this is NeoMutt 20180512 via Mac Ports.

On the PGLAF server, Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15) under Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

Both systems have recent CPUs and > 4GB of memory, which probably helps.

Theoretically I can parse the mbox file into the list archives at https://lists.cpunks.org so they are navigable like the rest of the post-2013 archive that's already there.  I'll take a look at this...

The cypherpunks archive is public, so it will then become indexable by Google and the other search engines.
  https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/

  - Greg