I am going to have to get this, it will save so much time!

Andree

On Sun, 11 Jan
2009, pickle vanagon wrote:

> Yes I did sanity checks on dates.  If a message had a date unexpectedly
> early or late (based on the previous message in the file), it was assigned
> the same date is the message immediately preceding it.
>
> At the very end, just for good measure, I ran it through "formail -bs" to
> force it into mbox format.
>
> -Wes
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>

Sincerely,

Andree Hurley
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