On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:07 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> i have two questions regarding the GURPSnet mailinglist:
>
> 1)
>
> I was only able to find archives down to the year 2005, while the list is
> older - i seem to remember, that this may be due to the removal from io.com
> at that time.
>
> Is there still some archive of that older time?
>
>

I don't know, b ut the archive at http://mail.sjgames.com/pipermail/gurpsnet-l/
goes back to 2003.

> 2)
>
> Also, i tried to read the archive files with "mutt", but that did not work.
>
> At first, i thought this to be the case because of the changes to the
> mailbox format: "From acco...@domain" is changed to "From account at domain"
> both for "From" and for "From:", so i changed that back with "sed".
>
> But still, "mutt" cannot read the files :-/
>

It's only necessary to change the first line.
I used the following bit of sed:
sed 's/^From \(.*\) at \(.*\)/From \...@\2/' infile.txt > outfile.mbox

and my version of mutt (actually, a whole range of versions on my
isp's shell machines) read them just fine.




-- 
David Scheidt
[email protected]
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