[Python-Dev] Mailing List archive corruption?

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:24:57 -0500, James Y Knight <foom at 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).

The Python issue tracker does, for one.

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