viewing <> constructs via the web archive

[Per Bothner]

On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 07:06:50PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> The correct fix would seem for the script be to replace all instances of
> '<' by '<'.  The characters '&' and '>' should also be replaced the
> same way.

Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> replied:
> This was explicitly disabled so as not to horribly mung patches
> sent to the list.

I am not saying we should mung patches sent to the list;  I am saying
that you have to mung text when you convert it to html to be stored
in a mail archive.  Not doing the munging *loses* information,
because you can no longer tell html directives from text.

If the goal is that you want to be able to use an html file as
direct input to patch, well I am sorry, that is just plain bogus.
You can't do that.  Use the original un-html'd mail message,
which is still available in the base (non-hypermail) archive.

Alternatively, it is easy to write a filter for removing html markup,
recovering a file suitable for patch.  Of course, that requires a
little bit of care in the original html conversion, to make sure it
is reversible.

	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions     bothner@cygnus.com     http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner