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How do you search messages from before you joined the mailing list?

• m4rtink 8mo ago
  You check the mailing list archives - those usually have a web based interface.
  • cl3misch 8mo ago
    Admittedly I was being facetious: OP said mailing lists are better than a forum, but for searching the archive you need a forum-like interface anyway.
    • m4rtink 8mo ago
      Its a bit easier as it can be read-only & static generated. Though there are some attempts to make it possible to reply using the Web interface, like HyperKitty /Mailman 3.
    • zer0zzz 8mo ago
      Google? Actually back in the day, gmane was the shiznit.
• zer0zzz 8mo ago
  Mail list archives. But at the point where the oss community I was part of switched, I had had a backlog of 8 years of mails.