Is there a public archive for the caml-list?

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The caml-list currently seems to be hosted via the usual Sympa instance of INRIA (https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list), however going to the page shows the following red pop-up:

AUTHORIZATION REJECT (arc) Web archives are restricted to list subscribers and local domain users. If you are subscribed to the list with a different email address, you should either use that other email address or update your list membership with the new email address.
You need to login

After closing the pop-up, the link to the archive is greyed-out.
I also can’t find any other public archives.

Is the archive now meant to be hidden to non-logged-in users, or is that some sort of new default behaviour of the mailing-list software that might have changed after an update?

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As far as I know, this change is not expected. Probably a good idea to ping the caml-list maintainers (@xavierleroy?).

Incidentally, until a few years ago I had maintained a mirror of caml-list using public-inbox which unfortunately did not survive some infrastructure changes that affected the machine it was hosted in.

However, a snapshot of that mirror is still available online (going up to Jul 2022): caml-list - the Caml user's mailing list. (This snapshot is also linked from The OCaml Community).

Cheers,
Nicolas

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I’m also interested by such archive. One of the goal of our cooperative is to publish a website which will contains the full archive of the caml-list. Even if this list is not very active, it is a good resource for OCaml (and it may also be of interest in understanding certain historical choices related to OCaml).

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Yes, the caml-list archives are currently restricted to subscribers, you need to log in to sympa.inria.fr with your subscriber identifiers to see it. That was a request from the sysadmins of sympa.inria.fr, who are seeing huge traffic spikes from rogue bots indexing the public mailing list archives.

The caml-list has been essentially dead for the last 10 years at least, with just a few release announcements, a ton of call for papers, and zero discussions. At this point, I’m not sure it is worth archiving at all.

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And also the very useful mirror of the source messages from the caml-list archives that @nojb put together; GitHub - nojb/caml-list (in the master branch).

It would be a nice project for someone to create a static HTML archive of the caml-list, as that would be much easier to host than the active version.

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