Thank you, Wes!
Your time and efforts are very much appreciated.
The instructions on Opera and importing are great.
Doug in CT

pickle vanagon wrote:
> Mike,
> 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.
>
> As weird as the listserv format might be, keep in mind that both formats are
> have the basic format "header body header body header body" etc (listserv
> has some dashes in between messages).  You just have to parse out the header
> and rewrite it in mailbox form.
>
> -Wes
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:
>
>
>> At 01:43 PM 1/11/2009, pickle vanagon wrote...
>>
>>  I've prepared the archives as an "mbox" file,
>>
>> How did you convert to mbox? The listserv archives have their own peculiar
>> format, and many messages in the archives (especially earlier ones), have
>> weird, non RFC822 dates and addresses.
>>
>>
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