On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Roger Burton West wrote:
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:45:48PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I've sucked it all down from GMail into Thunderbird via IMAP. I
don't know
how to turn that into something like a mail archive file(s).
Suggestions?
"Compact folders", then dig into Thunderbird's byzantine mail
directory
structure and locate the mbox file. (Noting that it may have been
given
DOS line-endings, just to confuse matters.)
...why yes, this is on-topic after all.
That did it. Here it is, everything from July 2004 on. There's
older stuff,
and I leave it as an exercise for the reader to scrape them.
http://schwern.org/tmp/Hates Software.gz
Make a copy and play.
(To keep on topic I made sure to put a space in the URL for you to
hate)
No, if you'd put a space in the URL, it would get encoded as
http://schwern.org/tmp/Hates%20Software.gz
which is hateful enough, since the space in the filename now makes
things less readable rather than more so. What you've done is
provide something other than the URL, which is not on-topic for hates-
software but might be welcome on hates-rfc-ignorance, or (giving you
the undoubtedly well-deserved benefit of the doubt) hates-rfc-
perversity. (Or hates-rfc-perversion.)
On topic: Software that displays such URLs with the real spaces so
as to confuse users into thinking this is valid syntax, and
misleading me into thinking I'll have to unbutcher it after I paste
it somewhere (Firefox). Let it be ugly, so people stop using spaces
in URLs (or at least get automatically punished for doing so).
I know it's an attempt to appeal to the masses, but there's a
difference between appealing and sucking up. We hates software
developers, the faceless plurality of them who make our lives miserable.
Cheers,
Josh
P.S.:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /tmp/Hates Software.gz on this
server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to
use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
P.P.S. This is now fixed, but noted here for posterity.
