There's actually a number of reasons.  The first is that the phpbb forum
method of threading topics is far superior (IMHO) to anything I've ever
seen in any mailing list archive, including the rather nice one that
David Moring has.  All messages related to a given thread are available
in a single view.

Consider the different views of the "Test message please ignore" thread.
In David's archive (not to pick on you David, it's actually much nicer
than most), each message is a separate URL:

http://tinyurl.com/3b64os

Here's the same thread imported into the forum:

http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=56035

See how everything with the same subject is all threaded into a single
page?  Isn't that nice?

The next reason is that the search mechanism in phpbb is also quite
good:
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/search.php

Finally, the forum link creates a place where people can view postings,
make postings, and access archives -- all from the same place -- and
without actually subscribing to the mailing list if they don't want to.
(All messages sent to the list go the forum, and vice versa.)

Finally, I've done this for NBU and NW already, and I'm just trying to
bring it to TSM as well.

---
W. Curtis Preston
Author of O'Reilly's Backup & Recovery and Using SANs and NAS
VP Data Protection
GlassHouse Technologies


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:07 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Trying to download the ADSM-L archive

On May 1, 2007, at 4:18 AM, Curtis Preston wrote:

> The problem with the listserv get command is that it blocks me at
> 16 MB
> a day.  At this rate, it's going to take a few weeks to get the
> archive.
> Can anyone help speed up the process?

In the big picture, what is it you are trying to accomplish?
 From what Shawn found, you are attempting to create another copy of the
ADSM-L archives at www.backupcentral.com.  As noted in ADSM QuickFacts,
we already have at least four ADSM-L archive sites: is there a
compelling
reason for another?

> If I can get access to the ADSM-L archive in text format, I should be
> able to import it the way I did with the other two lists.  I sent a
> message to the adsm.org webmaster last night and am waiting on a
> reply.
>

ADSM.org is just a secondary list archive site - and an unresponsive one
at that.  You would be better off talking to the administrator of the
list hosting site, Marist.

   Richard Sims     http://people.bu.edu/rbs/