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

[Andrew G. Malis]

Dave,

1980 is pretty good, seeing as the IETF formed in 1986.

Cheers,
Andy


On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 11:04 AM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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/>
>
> d/
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