Thanks - it looks like it's an easy fix. On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 4:39 PM chris burke <[email protected]> wrote:
> AFAIK, this is done by pipermail, which is the mail archiving system > in Mailman 2.0. > > When a message is posted to one of the forums, the pipermail program > writes a copy to an html file on the server. > > When you search the forum archives, the search points to the relevant > html files, in this case ../pipermail/general/2005-August/024019.html > . > > So it looks like pipermail sometimes converts an "@" into "at", > presumably where it thinks the code represents an email address. > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 1:13 PM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > When I was looking into some code from messages posted on the J forums in > > 2005, I noticed that something seems to have altered (maybe) "@" to "at" > in > > some of the posted code. > > > > For example, in this message about a 3D version of Life - > > http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2005-August/024019.html - > > we see this: life=: (tidy at test > > <http://www.jsoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general>@shift)&.>@] > ^: [ > > I'm guessing it's supposed to be something like "life=: (tidy@test > @shift)&.>@] > > ^: [" but don't understand why the other @s were not also messed up, so I > > may be wrong but the code is definitely altered somehow. > > > > Has anyone else noticed this? Does anyone know what might be causing > this > > or what a fix would be? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Devon > > > > -- > > > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > > > Quantitative Consultant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
