At 06:48 PM 1/11/2009, pickle vanagon wrote...
>I converted to mbox using a perl script.  I found one which worked
>okay to
>begin with, but had to rewrite some of it because of various problems
>(including the weird addresses you mention.)  When you import the mbox
>file,
>you will notice that there are a few messages from "foo@bar", this is
>a
>standin address when there was no address in the original listserv
>file.

I did something similar, but still got a lot of messages rejected by
formail (or maybe it was procmail), because of bad headers. Did you do
a sanity check/fix on dates, too? There were quite a few messages dated
prior to the start of the list in 4/1994.