best way to import mailing list archives

Posted by Naveen Garg on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Naveen Garg
Published on 2011-01-26T04:24:58Z Indexed on 2012/10/28 23:08 UTC
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I tried reading mailing lists in gnus in emacs, but emacs stops responding with the slow nntp servers downloads. nabble, gmane etc are also kind of slow. So I thought about download the gzipped archives available from most mailing lists. here are some nice instructions to import these archives into thunderbird. Is there a similar streamlined way to read the unziped archives in emacs, or other software ?

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