From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2011-08-03T10:51:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Documentation Improvement Proposal

On Aug 2, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> Someone, somewhere must have an archive of ruby-talk in mbox format.
> Provided I can get my hands on such a motherlode of archives, I'd be
> more than willing to go through the last two or three years worth of
> messages to find "How do I?" type questions. Guides can be built from
> there (and maybe revive the ruby-talk FAQ?).

In your headers:

List-Help: 	<mailto:ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org?body=help>

So you email the address with help and get:

> 3.5	How to retrieve past articles
> 
> # index             Get a list of files which you can # get
>                    Index file will be returned if it exists
> 
> # get ID
> # send ID           Get a ML article (sends back in plain text)
> 
> # mget <range list>          [mode] [interval]
> # mget <regular expression>  [mode] [interval]
>                    Get multiple files (ML articles or archive files)
>     Arg:
>       <range list>  Ex. 1-10,12,15-100  1,2,10
>                         first first:10 last:30 100-last  (MH syntax)
>       <regular exp> Ex. * ? 1? 1??
>       [mode]        gz tgz rfc934 b rfc1153 d unpack uf (default=tgz)
>       [interval]    mail time interval if the reply spans multiple mails
>                     (default=300)
>     Mode:
>      (No option)  'tar+gzip' -> spool.tar.gz
>       tgz         'tar+gzip' -> spool.tar.gz
>       uf          PLAINTEXT(with UNIX From:)
>       gz          GZIP(with UNIX From:)
>       rfc934      RFC934 format   PLAINTEXT
>       unpack      PLAINTEXT(with UNIX From:)
>       uu          UUENCODE
>       d           RFC1153 format  PLAINTEXT
>       rfc1153     RFC1153 format  PLAINTEXT

You can figure out the range from the archives:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml

Remember, mail ruby-talk-ctl, not ruby-talk