On 8/17/2009, Adrean Clark (cs@clercscar.com) wrote:
Also notice in the first sentence of the article a > sign was added. It's not in the original -- where did that come from? Thanks for all your help.
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From Little Girls Point, we headed ...
This is standard MBOX formatting rules. The beginning of each mail message in an mbox-formatted file has this
From user@example.com Mon Jul 27 20:15:30 2009
The first five characters in this line are
"From "
This separates this message from the one above it. I do not remember if there needs to be a null or blank line before this separator line. Because of this, any line in the body of the mail that begins with "From " (note the upper-case "F") must be changed so that the line does not get treated as an mbox-separator line. The convention is to prefix the line with ">", as you saw. A blank character would have also worked.
Note that persons frequently post problems with creating/re-building a Mailman list archive. These problems sometimes are caused by "From " lines that are not separators but which have not been modified per the mbox "standard".
Also note that this is not a "word wrap" problem, as implied in the "Subject" line.
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