Thanks, Barry and Mark, I'm resigned to my fate.
Just as additional info on the circumstances:
- The system crash seems to have been caused by disk errors on an alleged
RAID array (still working on that problem), so that may account for the file
corruption.
- We were running Mailman 2.1, so the
act the 1000 or so email addresses as a
last-resort, but probably won't be able to capture individual settings with
this approach.
I can't imagine why both files are corrupted, but they both produce the same
result (a compare shows that they are slightly different).
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