[Python-Dev] Mailing List archive corruption? (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Jan 19 18:48:41 CET 2010

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:24:57 -0500, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:

On Jan 19, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jan 19, 2010, at 03:50 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: > >> When I look at the mailing list archive for python-dev, I see some >> odd stuff at the bottom of the page: >> >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-January/thread.html#95232 >> >> Anyone know what's happened? > > WTF? I think the archives were recently regenerated, so there's > probably a fubar there. CC'ing the postmasters. That happens if messages had unescaped "From" lines in the middle of them. No doubt, you've now broken every link anyone had ever made into the python-dev archives, because now all the article numbers are different. BTDT...unfortunately... Pipermail really is quite crappy, sigh. Anyhow, when I did that, I went back to a backup to get the original article numbers, and edited the mbox file escaping From lines or adding additional empty messages until the newly regenerated article numbers matched the originals. I'd highly recommend going through that painful process, since I suspect a lot of people have links to the python-dev archive. Hope you have a backup (or can find caches on google or archive.org or something).

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