Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Charles Buckley writes:
> > I saw a report of this behaviour on this mailing list from the year
> > 2000.
> If you have an URL for this post, or a timestamp, or even a precise
> date, it might be helpful.  I can't find it.

It's https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2000-May/004782.html aka 
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2000-May/004782.html


> > It is still going on now in 2023. One would think that some
> > information on how to workaround this bug would have been found
> > between now and back then.
> I rather doubt it's the same bug (but it's worth comparing).  Mailman
> 2.0 was in beta in 2000, and pretty much anything from mail composed
> by badly written Japanese MUAs to mail composed by the even less
> conformant Windows 2000 Outlook betas could crash it.  Mailman 2.1 was
> released in 2006 with a *lot* of attention to input validation and
> exception handling, although more on the email side than the web UI
> side.

Actually, the first 2.1 release was in December, 2002. See 
https://wiki.list.org/DOC/7%20Mailman%20history
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