[sdiy] Synth-DIY archive repair

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On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM Ben Stuyts via Synth-diy
<synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Because of the top-100 list, I got quite a few supportive on- and off-list emails (thanks everybody!). But one such email from Ingo meant going down a new rabbit hole: there was actually a big part of the archive missing!
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> Many months in 2000-2005 were missing, but fortunately I found those in a file left by Rick. But most of 2006 and early 2007 were missing too and nowhere to be found here. Stupid me didn’t archive them locally anymore because I thought they were online. Ingo mentioned he had them, so he sent them to me. Thanks Ingo!!
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> It was a fun exercise in ETL. I think the archive is now much more complete than before. No guarantees that is actually complete, but it now consists of 175474 messages, some 40000 more than before. At least all months since 1995 now have actual date. Duplicates are removed, and most if not all Date: headers have been sanitised. Especially in the early days, the poster’s clock could be way off, and the archive showed messages coming from 1980 or totally out of order. (ChatGPT learned me quite a few new tricks handling mailboxes in Python.)
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> All this means that a new top-100 list will be coming soon. :-)
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> Ben
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