[Noisebridge-discuss] [drama] Frantisek is going to stop living at Noisebridge starting tonight.

Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 17:04:12 UTC 2010



On 11/17/2010 01:59 AM, Jake wrote:
> For my seventh post of the day, I will inform my readers that the
> pipermail system apparently has a bug which stops archiving a message at a
> line beginning with the word "From".  Since most or all of you are viewing
> the list as an email sent to your inbox, you have seen my post in its
> entirety from the first one.  I encourage you to delete the extra posts.

Early email systems using the mbox format used a blank line followed by 
a line starting with the word "From" (case sensitive) as a message 
separator.

I'll bet Pipermail still has this code active.

So it's not a bug, it's a feature.



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