Every week we rotate the mailing lists archive and move files arounds. However, we do this for a lot of legacy lists, which do not receive emails for years. E.g. "svn-src-stable-6" These legacy lists should be removed from the rotation and no longer copied to the archive of the current year. So fare, the following mailing lists are no longer active: aic7xxx ctm-announce freebsd-afs freebsd-alpha freebsd-atm freebsd-audit freebsd-binup freebsd-bugbusters freebsd-cluster freebsd-config freebsd-course freebsd-cvsweb freebsd-dedupes freebsd-eclipse freebsd-eol freebsd-fcp freebsd-fcp-editors freebsd-firewire freebsd-hpc freebsd-ia32 freebsd-ia64 freebsd-isdn freebsd-lfs freebsd-libh freebsd-mobile freebsd-mozilla freebsd-new-bus freebsd-newbies freebsd-openoffice freebsd-pkg-fallout.20130822 freebsd-platforms freebsd-proliant freebsd-qa freebsd-quarterly-calls freebsd-realtime freebsd-small freebsd-smp freebsd-sparc64 freebsd-sun4v freebsd-teaching freebsd-tilera freebsd-tinderbox freebsd-tokenring freebsd-user-groups freebsd-vendors freebsd-vuxml freebsd-wip-status freebsd-www p4-projects p4-releng svn-doc-all svn-doc-head svn-doc-projects svn-doc-svnadmin svn-doc-translations svn-doc-user svn-ports-all svn-ports-branches svn-ports-head svn-ports-projects svn-ports-svnadmin svn-ports-tags svn-soc-all svn-src-all svn-src-head svn-src-projects svn-src-release svn-src-releng svn-src-stable svn-src-stable-10 svn-src-stable-11 svn-src-stable-12 svn-src-stable-6 svn-src-stable-7 svn-src-stable-8 svn-src-stable-9 svn-src-stable-other svn-src-svnadmin svn-src-user svn-src-vendor trustedbsd-announce trustedbsd-cvs trustedbsd-discuss
A proposed workaround: if a mailing list does not receive a single email in a year, we will delete the empty files from the archive for the full year.
what about we don't rotate at all something which does not receive any email ?