happily fold, spindle, and mutilate those poor emails as necessary. 

     [Jimmy] The list archives are available as text (so close to mbox format
     that you really have to wonder why they bothered using anything else), or
     as HTML. Mailman does keep mboxes of its archives, but those are private -
     you should have no problem grabbing it though.

   Got'em. Seems that the mods are pretty basic; passing it through a couple of
   simple regexes - 
gzip -dc 2004-December.txt.gz|perl -0 -wpe's/^(From [^\s]+) at /\n$1\@/gsm;s/^\
n//s' > mail.box

   cures the disparity. 
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(¶) Greetings from Heather Stern

   hello, and greetings once again to the world of The Answer Gang. I'm sure
   some of you are wondering why we're so late - fact is, we actually managed
   to get some of us together for lunch, having had the odd chance of being
   close  enough  in  the same state to drive the rest of the intervening
   distance.

   Real Life also has its interventions. Not all bad - but the timing, well,
   that can be.

   I'm pleased to say one of my own interruptions of the outer world here
   probably won't bore you to death -- and now it's revealed...

                         Running an internet lounge

   For fun and profit? Fun, absolutely! Profit, um, no. My Star Trek Crew
   ([81]http://trek.starshine.org) runs an internet lounge at a handful of
   science fiction conventions around here, and we either bring our own older
   and not-so-valued equipment, or we use whatever is donated. These being the
   old grey mares of the computing world, it's inevitable - so far at least one
   monitor or computer has gone on the fritz each time. The one time we thought
   we were unscathed, a monitor died near the end, it was wellll.... sort of
   usable... we shut it off. Within the span of an hour it got so bad the
   working  blind  really  was  better,  or you be a candidate for blinux
   afterwards.

   The most spectacular failure was a power supply glitch, all the magic smoke
   leaked out, luckily it didn't incite anything else. California has this
   no-smoking indoors policy you see...

   The first of these lounges fit Battlestar Galactica more than Star Trek - a
   rag tag fugitive fleet, some can jump to light speed, and some, well, they
   can't. What distro, I hear you ask! Well, since different members of my crew
   - and a neighboring LUG - provided setups, we had:

     * some Sparcs running debian
     * about 6 PCs running Mandrake
     * 10 PCs running some form of Red Hat, kickstarted
     * maybe 4 more PCs running some debian or other
     * the token, err, talking BORG - as recommended by a blind friend of mine.
     * people brought their laptops of course.

   We've not run nearly so large a lounge since. 6 or 10 machines total is more
   like it.

   That was a pretty big conference, and people enjoyed the variety. I was
   surprised at why a particularly slow Sparc was enjoying such popularity, but
   apparently it had the best selection of chat clients...

   There's the key. If you want to run a netlounge, know your audience, and
   give them what they want. In my experience, they mostly care very little
   about the OS. What they want are features: