On 8/17/2009, Adrean Clark (c...@clercscar.com) wrote: > Also notice in the first sentence of the article a > sign was added. > It's not in the original -- where did that come from? Thanks for all > your help. > > ... > > >From Little Girls Point, we headed ...
This is standard MBOX formatting rules. The beginning of each mail message in an mbox-formatted file has this From u...@example.com Mon Jul 27 20:15:30 2009 The first five characters in this line are "From " This separates this message from the one above it. I do not remember if there needs to be a null or blank line before this separator line. Because of this, any line in the body of the mail that begins with "From " (note the upper-case "F") must be changed so that the line does not get treated as an mbox-separator line. The convention is to prefix the line with ">", as you saw. A blank character would have also worked. Note that persons frequently post problems with creating/re-building a Mailman list archive. These problems sometimes are caused by "From " lines that are not separators but which have not been modified per the mbox "standard". Also note that this is not a "word wrap" problem, as implied in the "Subject" line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: bsfin...@anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9