patches and code snippets sent to the list mangled? (was: Re: mailscanner converter - syntax errors)

[Joost van Baal]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:29:06AM +0200, Wytze van der Raay wrote:
> 
<snip>
> Interesting ... it looks like the mailing list archival software or
> display logic has corrupted the script: everywhere where there was
> an "@" (at sign) in the original script, it has been replaced by "(a)".
> Perl doesn't like that :-)
> 
> You can fix your copy of the script by making the reverse substitution:
> 	s/(a)/@/g
> For additional help, I've attached a fresh copy of the script to this
> e-mail (but I don't know what its fate will be after mailing list
> handling ...).

The message will reach the subscribers unmangled.  It's just the
webarchive which does mangling to protect from spam-bots.

So Mikael (and all other using patches sent to the LogReport lists)
should use the attachment in his own mailbox, not stuff as published in
the webarchive.

Bye,

Joost

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