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    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1263,
    "subject": "Tales of Arabian Nights",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-11-20T03:52:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-11-20T11:23:43+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0071@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-20T03:52:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Tales of Arabian Nights",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Wombat,\n\nRe: \"Tales of Arabian Nights\" game, coincidentally that is a product\nI've been looking for (the West End Games version)!  (I saw it once,\nbut it slipped through my fingers . . . )  Is the second edition that\nyou worked on soon-to-be-in-print or already out of print (since\nI'm certain it isn't in print right now)?\n\nBut yes, alas, it is true--as of old, the Pyramid is built by slave\nlabor for the benefit of one man!  Can't complain about \"truth in\nadvertising\" here!\n\nAnd have you seen \"Fading Suns\"?\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0074@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin J. Maroney",
        "address": "kmaroney at crossover.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-20T11:23:43+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Tales of Arabian Nights",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0021-0071@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Drifting a bit off-topic, here, but...."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 03:52 AM 11/20/98 GMT, you wrote:\nRe: \"Tales of Arabian Nights\" game, coincidentally that is a product\nI've been looking for (the West End Games version)!  (I saw it once,\nbut it slipped through my fingers . . . )  Is the second edition that\nyou worked on soon-to-be-in-print or already out of print (since\nI'm certain it isn't in print right now)?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The English version of the second edition of _Tales of the Arabian Nights_\nis, unfortunately, in limbo right now. A German edition should be\nforthcoming in 1999. Perhaps I will publish a samizdat translation of the\nrules and components as an accessory.... "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "But yes, alas, it is true--as of old, the Pyramid is built by slave\nlabor for the benefit of one man!  Can't complain about \"truth in\nadvertising\" here!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The first-draft material for _GURPS New Sun_--is that still available on\nthe SJGames website? "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "And have you seen \"Fading Suns\"?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "No, I haven't. Do you recommend it, or do you just recommend it as a\ncuriosity?\n\nWombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com\nKitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction\nhttp://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html"
        }
      ]
    }
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