On Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 06:05:34 PM PDT, Zenaan Harkness
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 12:04:04PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> 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?
>Sorry, too slow this morning: http://cypherpunks.venona.com/raw/
Well, I looked at the file http://cypherpunks.venona.com/raw/cyp-1995.txt
using my browser. First, I looked for "Assassination Politics", and found
two (yes, TWO) references,I then looked for "AP" and found nothing,
What is going on?
Jim Bell
