On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 1:30 AM Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2017, at 4:15 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > > > If you're subscribed to the Agora lists (and I'm pretty sure you are), > > you should also be able to log in to the archive here: > > <https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/> > > Would you believe, these archives are corrupt according to the more > reasonable interpretations of the BSD mbox format? I suspect that there may > be a very old Mailman bug lurking in them. > > The agora-business archive contains, in the message > > Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 00:31:31 +1100 (EST) > From: Steve Gardner <gard...@sng.its.monash.edu.au> > To: Agora Business <agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> > Message-id: < > pine.gso.4.10.10211240018260.10341-100...@sng.its.monash.edu.au> > > a line beginning with the characters ‘From ‘ which is not prefixed with > > or transformed by any encoding. > > I’ll happily consider that my parser may be incorrect, but I’m reasonably > sure that no BSD mailbox should contain such a line, other than as a > message delimiter. > > It’s not the end of the world, I can easily fix the message in my local > copy and carry on with life, but: wow. > > -o Okay, I know this reply is very late. This is just one of those things that I keep never having time for, or forgetting. I've been meaning to reply to this since I originally received it though and now I have the time. My understanding is that this is an intentional noncomformance on the part of mailman. As far as I can recall, it's not a bug. They just decided to ignore the standard. There are scripts that will transform it to standard format. I used to have a link as a citation for this, but I've since lost it. -Aris
