[Cuis-dev] Merging the mailing list archives and make them searchable, possible?

[H. Hirzel]

Hi Eze

On 10/03/2025 10:51 pm, Ezequiel Birman via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi Hannes
>
> As far as I know Thunderbird is only a mail (and maybe nntp) client, 
> it won't download the archives. Please let me know if I'm wrong.

Correct, it only lets you search mails since you subscribed to the Cuis 
list. Which _could_ be quite comprehensive...

And Thunderbird has under 'Tools' and import function for mails (see 
attachment). Which might work. I did not try it out.

>
> The idea is to facilitate a /comprehensive/ search experience. Right 
> now as you say, we can google search the original mailing list and the 
> current, but not the mbox provided in the repository, which is zipped, 
> so it is not indexed by GitHub.

You mean this one

https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/blob/master/Documentation/MailList/cuis-dev_cuis-smalltalk.org.txt.zip

?

--Hannes
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