The Urth list — the archive as downloaded
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This is the raw material behind urth.darkrealm.vip, packed 21 August 2026.
It is what was downloaded, not what the site makes of it: no message
here has been reformatted, re-threaded or repaired.

WHAT IS IN IT

  pipermail/       158 files     17.1 MB   monthly archives from Mailman, via the Wayback Machine
  html/           8897 files     61.0 MB   the pages urth.net served, one per message
  mbox/             51 files     19.9 MB   ours: html/ parsed into RFC822

WHERE IT CAME FROM

  Before 2004  http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/ — still served at the
               time of writing. One .shtml page per message, as served.
  2004-2022    lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/, off the air
               since, recovered from the Wayback Machine. 158
               monthly files, September 2004 to February 2022.

WHAT IS OURS AND WHAT IS NOT

  pipermail/ and html/ are the archives as published. mbox/ is ours: the same
  pages parsed into RFC822, with a Message-ID synthesised from the volume and
  page number, and an X-Urthmirror-Source header naming the page each message
  came from. Nothing else was added or removed. It is included because it is
  what the reader is built from, and it can be regenerated from html/.

  Nothing in this archive has had its quotation marks repaired, its encodings
  fixed, its identities merged or its threads assembled. All of that lives in
  the database the site serves, and none of it is here.

EMAIL ADDRESSES

  Left as published. The site obscures them on every page it renders — that is
  worth doing against something reading HTML, and pointless in a file you have
  already downloaded. The pre-2004 pages carry addresses in the clear because
  urth.net published them that way; the pipermail years carry "user at host"
  because Mailman had already done it.

THE MESSAGES

  The words belong to the people who wrote them. This is an unofficial mirror,
  kept because the pipermail archive went off the air once already and the
  remaining half is one outage from going with it. If you are one of those
  people and would rather not be here, the address on
  urth.darkrealm.vip/about reaches someone.

FILE LIST

  SHA256SUMS lists every file with its checksum.
