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On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

> There is no need to keep Babyl format

I suspect there are lots of people who keep their mail archives in Babyl 
format.  While I understand that conversion is possible (even today), it 
might be impractical and/or user-unfriendly to require that all of them 
be converted.  Especially since Emacs 21 keeps Babyl files in emacs-mule 
while earlier versions didn't; this might cause some breakage during 
conversion to mbox and the return of the ubiquitous \201 bug.

So I tend to agree with Handa-san on this issue.