Hi Richard,

Richard Gaskin wrote
> 
> I asked Heather about that and apparently the team is using the list
> manager's default settings, so it's not clear what more they can do.
> 
> I've looked into this before, and it seems that if you need to parse
> it you can do so reliably not by relying on cr&"From" but look instead
> for cr&"From:".
> 
> For example, if you look at message ID
> <[email protected]> from this
> month's archive you'll see Jan quoted Bob's full post, headers and
> all, but the list manager indented the quoted "From:" string by one
> space so it won't get confused with actual message boundaries.
> 
> A bit non-standard, perhaps, but so far it seems reliable in the
> archives I've worked with.
> 
> So if you don't mind my asking:  Why are you machine-parsing the
> archives?  More Lucene experiments?
> 

I am reading the mailbox offline using this stack:
http://at.livecodejournal.com/stacks/Mailbox_browser.zip
http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/Mailbox_browser.zip

What if the problem is in the software that send the emails
to this mail list?

Could we ask developers to make a simple test sending the word:
>From as the first word in a line and in the second line:
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Al 



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