[Mailman-Users] Deleting Archives - Was(Permission of data/bounce-events-?????.pck)

[Clovis Tristao]

Hi,

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Clovis Tristao wrote:
>   
>> How I make to erase these archives? I can do it?
>> I have archives since Novembro/2005.
>>     
>
> First - please don't hijack existing threads for unrelated posts. It
> makes the archives difficult to read. Post a new message rather than a
> reply.
>
>   
Sorry

> If you don't want list archives at all, you can safely set archive to
> No on your lists Archiving Options page and then delete the
> archives/private/listname/ and archives/private/listname.mbox/
> directories, and if your archives were public, also delete the
> archives/public/listname/ and archives/public/listname.mbox/
> directories.
>
> If you want to keep only recent archives, say from the last month or
> two, you can delete the unwanted stuff from the
> archives/private/listname/ directory, but there will still be old
> entries in the index.
>
> A better method would be to delete old posts from the
> archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox file and rebuild the
> archives as described at
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.003.htp>.
>
> Note that if you delete old posts from the
> archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox file and rebuild the
> archives, the URLs of remaining archived messages will change. This is
> only a problem if one post refers to another by URL or if someone
> saves the URL for later. This is probably not important to you if you
> are only archiving the last month or two.
>
>   
Thanks a lot,
Clóvis

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