Re: [Jgeneral] Insidious alteration of code in old forum messages

[Devon McCormick]

Thanks - it looks like it's an easy fix.

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 4:39 PM chris burke  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 
> 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
> > @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
>


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Devon McCormick, CFA

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Re: [Jgeneral] Insidious alteration of code in old forum messages

[chris burke]

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  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
> @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
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[Jgeneral] Insidious alteration of code in old forum messages

[Devon McCormick]

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
@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

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Devon McCormick, CFA

Quantitative Consultant
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For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm