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1project2many
Around 2001 or so people were switching from primarily text based email with occasional attachments to HTML based email. These would come through the diy-efi mailer daemon as an HTML attachment or a little text with with large amounts of non-text data included. The archives were automatically stored as text at the end of each month and they were getting clogged with garbage. So a few of us got together and worked hard to trim out any non-text portions of the messages including HTML attachments.
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