[Mailman-Users] Problem with /usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch --wipe

[Barry Finkel]

I have converted a list from Majordomo to Mailman.  I took the
collected Majordomo archives and built an mbox file.  I used this
mbox file with

     /usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch --wipe $LISTNAME $LISTNAME.mbox

Some of the old archives from 1995 are appearing in the September 2007
list.  Here is the header from the first message in the Sep 2007
archive:

>From owner-women-in-science  Wed May  3 11:57:56 1995
Received: (from majordom at localhost) by achilles.ctd.anl.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id LAA28996 for women-in-science-outgoing; Wed, 3 May 1995 11:57:56 -0500
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Message-Id: <199505031657.LAA12146 at dns2.anl.gov>
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Date:     3-MAY-1995 11:33:41.02
From: <xxxxx%ANLCMB at ANLVM.ctd.anl.gov>
To: GATEWAY::"women-in-science at anl.gov"@dns2.anl.gov
X-ANJE-To: GATEWAY::"women-in-science at anl.gov"
Subject: May 5 First Friday Forum
Sender: Women-in-Science-Owner at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Precedence: bulk


and here are the headers from the last of the 35 messages in that
archive:

>From owner-women-in-science  Thu Apr 13 15:04:21 1995
Received: (from majordom at localhost) by achilles.ctd.anl.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id PAA16016 for women-in-science-outgoing; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 15:04:21 -0500
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Received: from ANLVM.CTD.ANL.GOV by anl.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1)
        id AA21398; Thu, 13 Apr 95 15:04:17 CDT
Message-Id: <9504132004.AA21398 at anl.gov>
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Date:    13-APR-1995 14:58:06.26
From: <xxxxx%ANLCMB at ANLVM.ctd.anl.gov>
To: GATEWAY::"women-in-science at anl.gov"@ANLVM.ctd.anl.gov
X-Anje-To: GATEWAY::"women-in-science at anl.gov"
Subject: Science Demonstrations at Child Development Center
Sender: Women-in-Science-Owner at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Precedence: bulk

These message were from 1995, when we were connected to BITNET.
What in Mailman 2.1.9 is causing these messages to be archived in the
wrong month?  I have not had time to look at any python code.  Could
it be the hyphens in the date:

     Date:    13-APR-1995 14:58:06.26

Thanks.

I have converted many lists from Majordomo to Mailman using the same
procedure, and, while I have not looked at the newly-built Mailman
list archives in detail, I have not seen this problem before.
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Barry S. Finkel
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