[ih] Really old list archives Was: google groups going away feb 22

[Dave Crocker]

On 1/20/2024 7:58 AM, Noel Chiappa via Internet-history wrote:
> And speaking of the IETF list, I wonder how far back the online archives go.
> The user interface to the archives, at:
>
>    https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ietf/
>
> doesn't seem to have any way to look at the oldest messages in that archive.


4 Jan 1980.

IETF mailing lists are accessible via IMAP, which then makes it easy to 
see the oldest message in the list.

    "An *IMAP* server with all messages from all lists is available for
    IMAP access at imap.ietf.org:993.
    For authenticated access, use your IETF Datatracker
    <https://datatracker.ietf.org> login and password. For anonymous
    access, use username="anonymous", and provide your email address as
    a password."

    Mailing lists <#>

    🔗 https://www.ietf.org/how/lists/ <https://www.ietf.org/how/lists/>

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