users of archives of ubuntu-bugs and desktop-bugs on lists.ubuntu.com

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:15:04PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're having problems on lists.ubuntu.com with the archiver
> (pipermail) getting backed up on specific lists.  It can cope with
> most lists but simply doesn't scale to the level of traffic that's on
> both ubuntu-bugs and desktop-bugs.  We've disabled archiving on these
> lists[1] as an emergency measure so that lists.ubuntu.com can work
> properly again.
> 
> However, we'd like to know who's interested in the archives of these
> lists and why so that we can plan how to fix the problem properly in
> the long term.
> 
> So, if you're a user of these archives, please let us know and tell us
> why (since the contents of the lists are also obviously also/already
> available indefinitely on Launchpad).  Thanks.

Note that this (as I understand it) refers only to the cross-referenced HTML
web archives of these messages, not to the mbox archives (which I use
sometimes).

I personally have no use for the HTML.

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 - mdz