On Wed, February 20, 2019 10:24, John Rigg wrote: Looking at the mail archive, it is roughly covering a decade. During testing the conversion output alone I stumbled upon mails that are valuable to understand the history of the jack project better. It's a concentrated resource (without ads!) of information that can be queried with grep. Attached to this mail are samples for 3 blindly chosen archived mails. Each mail is represented as plain text and HTML file. The encoding is UTF-8. If plain text file is viewed in browswer, the display setting should be "Unicode" in order to correctly display. The HTML variant should work out-of-the-box with an according header for UTF-8. Some mails have garbled text which is possibly the result of mail clients sending text forth and back with small encoding errors. Only very few mails have that problem, where possible the encoding is converted from the MIME part infos (using reformime, iconv). Mail addresses are obfuscated with the pattern Full Name &lt;_hidden_(a)domain-untouched.tld&gt; This happens for all header addresses and all addresses in the mail body (eg. "Jon Doe <email here> wrote:" will be replaced). Already obfuscated mail addresses are left as is. VCF Card attachments are removed. PGP Signature attachments are removed. HTML variant: -every mail is in a folder -index.html links to available attachments (images, pdf, diff files, ...) if any, in same folder -links to In-Reply-To and Follow-Up messages Text variant: -no inline attachments -all text concatenated in to a gzip file is around 3.5 MB. I'd like to make this resource available without restriction (eg. not required to be mailinglist member) as a source of information that can be used stand-alone or referenced from other places. Please have a look at the examples. If you have written to this list and would like to be excluded from the archives, please tell so (this will be fiddly and make the archive less useful so please think twice when even considering this). Any other feedback on form and function is welcome! Greetings Thomas

On Fri, February 22, 2019 17:41, Malik Costet wrote: Thanks, yes it could also replace the @ and dots. This is the new regex: $ echo &quot;jon.doe(a)here.aaa.bb&quot; | sed -r &#39;s/\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+(a)([A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}\b)/\[hidden\] at \1/g' | sed 's/\./ dot /g' [hidden] at here dot aaa dot bb

On Sat, February 23, 2019 13:16, John Rigg wrote: Nice, I'm yet unsure if the message IDs should be left plain, the part before @ is the only common identifier that will allow anybody to match the archive output with the individually received mails. Message-ID <AANLkTik_Lapa6aGxfgT4H_9QhRFz9jLAo=3GjwLyTpBF at mail dot gmail dot com> It's not mandatory to show it in the archive. Currently the main ID is the filename of the mail as is in the tarball, in directory cur, as delivered by Adi's mail agent. I'd opt-in for keeping the ID part unless other reasons speak against it. Greetings Thomas

On Sat, February 23, 2019 23:15, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: Hard to say if it's complete, it starts around 2009 so your archive would be about half a month "older"! You could send a private mail with a link to a tarball and I'll see if using it fully or for the starting year will be easier to combine. I let the conversion run over night (it takes around 1 sec per mail per format) and it looks not bad, most stuff seems good for publishing. New: -for HTML, there are "prev" "next" links now. -follow-up and in-reply-to are not visible IDs but the subject, including author -small-ish text processing to remove empty lines before the first non-empty line and the same for the tail I plan to put it to a throw-away repository soon for testing, before it goes to github.com/jackaudio/mailing_list_archive. Greetings Thomas