From:	reader AT newsguy DOT com (Harry Putnam)
Subject:	List-server archives
18 May 1998 09:52:44 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<355f8cb6.1539882.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.silcom.com>
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To:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Just recently started reading this list, so asked the list server for 2
mnths back messages.  They came promptly as have any other requests I've
made to the list server (gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com).  Very efficient, 
And thanks to list owner.

The messages are not in standard unix message format.  so could not import
them into any of several news and mail readers (Gnus  forte-agent)

The normal second "From" field found at the beginning of unix format
messages ( the one with no colon) is preceded by a (>) quote character,
like so:
>From jan DOT skarvall AT swipnet DOT se Wed Apr 29 15:38:03 1998
Unix format has no (>) preceding the 'From'.
Is this some other kind of format that can be easily imported as single
messages?

I finally put the 32,000+ line file  in emacs and stripped all the
(>)characters from the "From" fields with "query-replace-regexp" and was
then able to import the file and seperate the individual messages. As unix
format.

Probably did unnecessary work on this -- is there some other handy way to
import these archive files and split them into seperate messages?
-- 

Harry Putnam   reader AT newsguy DOT com
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