The web archives are generated from the list notebooks, which you can download. One option is to download the notebooks, then find a script guru to write an awk or perl script to generate a database of the posts or a website that indexes them. You will lose some of the search features that listserv provides, but even those can reconstructed in a database. 

You can also simply save the archive web pages, which are just HTML. If you have the cooperation of the site manager they can just be zipped and then unzipped on a new site. Without that you can use the open source wget utility to download the entire archive. You won’t have the search function, but the posts will still be there.

Larry



> On Jul 29, 2017, at 3:18 PM, Michael Feldman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Background:
> 
> I'm the owner of an 800-member community list that's been hosted on a university listserv machine for about 14 years. Our host has accommodated us out of civic-mindedness and also because there was very little marginal cost in supporting us. In recent years, most of the university users have migrated their lists to other acad and admin products -- Blackboard for courses, etc.
> 
> With so many other users gone, my list is now proportionally much larger than it used to be. So management has decided to move the remaining lists to the cloud-based listserv; supporting them will incur real costs. So my list must vacate by the end of August.
> 
> As it happens, the community already has a successful NextDoor group, and many of my subscribers already subscribe there too. So each remaining member of my list will be able to move over to NextDoor without too much disruption.
> 
> The Big Question:
> 
> How can we preserve the listserv archive? The vast majority of messages are, individually, of only momentary interest, but as a whole, the archive represents a rich 14-year history of the community. A few historians and other social scientists in the neighborhood might well benefit from being able to mine this cultural artifact. The community has a website; alternatively, one of my members runs a small ISP and has offered to host the archive, if we can find a way to preserve and port it. I'd rather not lose it when we leave the listserv server!
> 
> Any advice you can offer will be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Mike Feldman
> 
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