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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1484",
    "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": 1484,
    "subject": "Happy Birthday",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-04-05T13:34:26+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-05T17:11:13+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0001@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ranjit Bhatnagar",
        "address": "ranjit at moonmilk.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-05T13:34:26+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Happy Birthday",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Today is the second anniversary of the opening of the Urth list\non April 5, 1997.\n\nSince that day we've written almost 7 megabytes or about 2000 pages.  \n\nTo put this into perspective, the stream of words would\nreach to Alpha Centauri and back, if each letter were seven\nmillion miles long.  Well, maybe that doesn't really put\nthings into perspective at all.  Anyway, thanks for the\nlong, fascinating conversation.\n\n\n-- ranjit"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0004@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mitchell A. Bailey",
        "address": "mab at lindau.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-05T17:11:13+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Happy Birthday",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0025-0001@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:\n\nToday is the second anniversary of the opening of the Urth list\n...\nSince that day we've written almost 7 megabytes or about 2000 pages.\n\nTo put this into perspective, the stream of words would\nreach to Alpha Centauri and back, if each letter were seven\nmillion miles long.  Well, maybe that doesn't really put\nthings into perspective at all.  "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "...\nWell, if you transmit via electromagnetic radiation of some wavelength\nso it propogates at c = ~186,000 miles/s, and you've got a REALLY slow\nmodem,  so that it takes 3.76 sec to transmit each letter/byte..."
        }
      ]
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