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Email archives are even harder to transfer, and to make sense of in general. For example if you want to find the review comment thread for linux commits there

• angio 6y ago
  > Email archives are even harder to transfer, and to make sense of in general. Email archives are very easy to transfer, you simply download the mbox file from the old system and import them to the new one [0]. > For example if you want to find the review comment thread for linux commits there is no reliable way to do it, your best bet is to google the title. In my experience, projects that use a ml-based workflow have higher standards for commit messages and so the information about a commit is usually in the commit. [0] https://wiki.list.org/DOC/How%20do%20I%20import%20an%20archive%20into%20a%20new%20mailing%20list%3F https://wiki.list.org/DOC/How%20do%20I%20import%20an%20archi...
• Seirdy 6y ago
  > Email archives are even harder to transfer Mailing lists are trivial to distribute. Thanks to maildir and mbox, everybody has a full copy of the mailing list just as they have a full copy of the repository.
  • kanox 6y ago
    > Thanks to maildir and mbox, everybody has a full copy of the mailing list. No, that only covers emails that you personally received. You need another mechanism for older emails.
    • ddevault 6y ago
      A mechanism which is provided by mailing list archives in the form of mbox downloads. If you question the reliability of this (but apparently not the proven unreliability of GitHub), as a fallback you can just ask an older subscriber to give you their mbox.