Hi Dave - very understandable that you'd post here. I'm sorry no one replied to your first post. No answer yet from the sysadmins about updating the lists.gnu.org web pages, but there was a machine crash last night and I'm sure they're scrambling, along with all their usual overload ...

Anyway, here's no one place for all *.gnu.org web pages. I guess generically there is webmasters@gnu.org, and they know how to forward if necessary. The specific exception here is that for anything related to mail, archives/delivery/whatever, -email is unavailable- is probably the best. Although a few volunteers have limited access to the mail machine, there are many mail-related things only the sysadmins can do.

All the best,
Karl

Hi Dave - thanks for the report, and sorry for the belated reply. Savannah people can't edit those pages, and I doubt the FSF sysadmins will want to, but I'll ask.

There's no way to redirect ftp urls, as far as I know. I guess an ftp server could conceivably be configured to return an http 302 or whatever, but that's not what the client (web browser) would be expecting, so I don't think it would work.

The "download the archives in mbox format" link on http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2019-04/ and pages for all earlier periods (going back two decades) points to ftp://lists.gnu.org/groff/, which does not appear to be active (it times out every time I try to connect to it).  The same link on http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2019-05/ and pages for all later periods points to https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/groff/, which works.

The same break happens in the same places for the archives of the groff-commit and bug-groff lists.  I didn't check any other lists, but it's plausible the problem exists across the board.

Can the "mbox format" links on these older pages be updated?  Alternately, can the old link redirect to the new one, if there's a way to configure an ftp:// URL to redirect to an http:// one?  Thanks.