I've been trying to figure out how to access the archives programmatically. I'm sure this is easy once you know, but googling various things hasn't worked.  What I want to do is graph the number of messages about PEP 572 by time.  (or has someone already done that?)

I installed GNU Mailman, and downloaded the gzip'ed archives for a number of months and unzipped them, and I suspect that there's some way to get them all into a single database, but it hasn't jumped out at me.  If I count the "Message-ID" lines, the "Subject:" lines, and the "\nFrom " lines in one of those text files, I get slightly different numbers for each.

Alternatively, they're maybe already in a database, and I just need API access to do the querying?  Can someone help me out?

Bob