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Sudish Joseph <sudish@mindspring.com> writes:

> Why Randal couldn't munge all his mailboxes into either format in one
> line of Perl is beyond me. :)

Because information is lost for messages stored with the old
algorithm.   You can easily remove the extra quoting performed by the
new algorithm, like this

	s/^>(>*From )/\1/

but I cannot see why anyone would want to do that.