Re: A note from the maintainer

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Aug 14, 2016, 01:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20160814012706.GA18784@starla>
In-Reply-To: <20160813111449.vkoo3fmlfd65loh5@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> I collected the message-ids from my archive. Interestingly, I had a
> dozen or so that did not have message-ids at all. I think most of them
> are from patches that put the "From " line in the body, like this one:
> 
>   http://public-inbox.org/git/20070311033833.GB10781@spearce.org/
> 
> and then they got corrupted on a round-trip through one of the bad mbox
> formats (probably downloading from gmane, I'd guess; the export there
> uses mbox, and I use maildir myself, so it probably got split badly
> years ago). Anyway, public-inbox seems to get this case right, which is
> good.

Yes, I was somewhat careful to check for proper mboxes from gmane; I just missed entire ranges :x

What's also interesting about the thread you highlighed is the extra '<>' when you started that thread; and I have a bug where I strip off an extra '>' which needs to be fixed...

I wonder if I should make "editorial" changes to fixup user bugs, but then there's also bunch of messages which are replies to <y> because git-send-email had usability problems back in the day...

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> I had several hundred message ids that you didn't. About half of them
> were spam or other junk. I weeded them out manually (mostly by picking
> through the subjects, so possibly there's some error). The end result is
> 279 messages that I think are legitimate that you don't have.
> 
> I'll send them to you off-list, as the mbox is about 300K, which the
> list will reject.

Thanks, should all be imported.

The one which started the thread belonging to <loom.20100716T103549-783@post.gmane.org> was really iffy, but I kept it; as well as an "unsubscribe" one; I guess those people are shamed for life :)

  git cat-file blob HEAD:b7/5bb577d76487bc9aebf0656d4e03eff22049f4

is totally legit, but doesn't seem to show up properly, so there's another bug I need to fix. For the moment, the following also works:

	public-inbox.org/git/b75bb577d76487bc9aebf0656d4e03eff22049f4/
(but I guess it was reposted as <26299.4828321554$1213013668@news.gmane.org>