It's been brought to my attention that the Great UTF8 Switcheroo on June 19th may have had some side effects. Some lists are showing some corruption on index pages. Not a complete disaster, but fairly annoying.
For example, on brygforum, things look reasonably ok after June 19th, but before then subject lines are misdecoded and show up prepended with strings like =?iso-8859-1?. http://www.mail-archive.com/brygforum@haandbryg.dk/maillist.html As best I can tell, the problem only affects index pages that use characters outside the ASCII range, and even then only on pre-June 19 entries. I think I know what the problem is - basically a transition effect involving the mhonarc database and the way I changed some settings. I don't know yet if it is fixable, or if instead archives will just have to wait for the indexes to flush themselves with time. Cleansing will happen automatically since indexes only display the most recent 3000 messages for the list. Anyway, if there are other problems, please report them either on gossip or private email. Stuff sent to gossip will get a much higher level of attention. Cheers, Jeff _______________________________________________ Discussion list for The Mail Archive Gossip@jab.org http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
