On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:24:57 -0500, James Y Knight <f...@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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