On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 12:00:07AM +0000, jim bell wrote: > In the last couple of days, I wanted to remind myself of the timing of the > first appearance of my Assassination Politics essay on the Cypherpunks list. > My recollection is that I published Part 1 on the Digitaliberty mailing list, > maintained by Bill Frezza, on FIDOnet. At that time, I was unaware of the > existence of the Cypherpunks email list. At some point, somebody saw my > essay, and posted a reference (or a copy) to Cypherpunks, I believe. And at > some point, I was invited to the Cypherpunks list. But over 24 years later, > I don't recall the exact timing. I know, I believe, that Part 2 wasn't > written until later in July, 1995. > So to recall this, I just searched for 'cypherpunks archive'. I found the > site listed in the title, figuring that it would contain the information I > sought. https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/ That looked > promising. I looked at: mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki which, > promisingly, showed the years 1992-1999. So far, so good, Since the > information I sought should have appeared in 1995, I clicked on that year, > Weirdly, the information for March and April and June was not present, Huh? > This was, pretty much, the time frame I needed to search, > Am I imagining things? Could somebody look for various strings, like "Jim > Bell", or "Assassination Politics", or "AP", etc? > Well, it's not like my existence was entirely deleted. > https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/jim_bell_jimbell_at_pacifier_com_/ > > But something very weird is going on, The information I sought, is not > included, Is this a mere accident? What is the pattern, here? > Jim Bell
Does anyone have a single file or zip of "up to 1999", that we could use to complete our historical archives?
