[colug-432] Is anyone using gmail getting colug mail?

[R P Herrold]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Jeff Frontz wrote:

> Is there a backup of the address list from September that can be restored?

yes, in that there is a level zero backup of the box (I see 
one dated: 2017-09-07 08:09:56), along with daily 'hot' 
backups: aged away to retain for the last 10 for a week; the 
last 5 for the last 4 weeks; monthlies for the last year; and 
annuals, forever

working with mailman address lists is not pleasant (unlike 
Majordomo which used flat files).  To address that, back in 
2010 I set up a cron process to email me a monthly flat dump of 
all lists.  I save some of those, and will look.  [looking ... 
back: I seem to have the one for: Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 
04:42:04, and will get a new new like it in the next couple of 
days] In hindsight, there would have be no big penalty for 
saving a date-versioned copy locally as well.  But as I say, 
hindsight

I have amended that for going forward

The host also handles some non-public lists, and so there are 
PII privacy issues in 'farming it out'

As to wading into that swamp, tanstaafl, and I've obligations 
to commitments of higher priority than doing that via backup 
'fishing' this week

I have previously communicated to Jeff Frontz in private 
correspondence off list, that the packagers of the mailman / 
logrotate stanza set it up such that the log files for who 
dropped off when, 'age away' and so it is not just a matter of 
reading a log and doing a diff, to see what transactions may 
have occurred asynchronously, to do a 'complete' restore

* shrug * This is a low volume mailing list by a user group no 
longer interested in meeting regularly.  I'll check a diff 
after the first of the month brings me an updated inventory

-- Russ herrold