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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": 1638,
    "subject": "big changes afoot",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1999-05-22T21:53:17+00:00",
    "last": "1999-05-24T08:24:11+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0027-0010@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ranjit Bhatnagar",
        "address": "ranjit at moonmilk.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-05-22T21:53:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) big changes afoot",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "For almost a year I've been struggling to make room in my\nweb account for the urth and whorl archives -- every two\nweeks or so I'd have to throw away something else to get the\nquota alerts to go away.  I finally gave in and bought Urth\nits own home -- welcome to http://www.urth.net/urth !\n\nIt'll take me a while to get everything moved over to the\nnew server.  For now, everything is where it used to be\nexcept that you will find the Urth archives for volumes\n1..26 at http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/\nThe ongoing volume 27 and all the Whorl archives are still\nat http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/ and\nhttp://www.moonmilk.com/whorl/archives/ for now.\n\nRanjit."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0027-0011@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-05-23T13:52:55+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) big changes afoot",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0027-0010@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "For almost a year I've been struggling to make room in my\nweb account for the urth and whorl archives -- every two\nweeks or so I'd have to throw away something else to get the\nquota alerts to go away.  I finally gave in and bought Urth\nits own home -- welcome to http://www.urth.net/urth !\n\n...\n\nRanjit."
        },
        {
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          "text": "Ranjit,\n\nThis is wonderful. Thank you.\n\nIt is all too easy for me to forget that someone is doing a great deal of\nwork and spending a great deal of time to make the Urth and Whorl mailing\nlists, web sites and archives exist and function so smoothly. As with so\nmuch of the web, I have more or less been taking it for granted that these\nresources would just always be there, although in the back of my mind I\nknew this wasn't true.\n\nSo I would like to take this opportunity to say that I am very grateful\nthat you are continuing to support this site; it has given me a great deal\nof pleasure and provided me with a lot of entertainment over the last few\nyears. If there is some way I can help out, please let me know.\n\nBy the way, I really like the new format of the web page archive on the new\nsite.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0027-0012@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mark Millman",
        "address": "mark_millman at hmco.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-05-24T08:24:11+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) big changes afoot",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0027-0011@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "On Sunday 23 May 1999 at 4:53 am GMT, Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:\nFor almost a year I've been struggling to make room in\nmy web account for the urth and whorl archives -- every\ntwo weeks or so I'd have to throw away something else\nto get the quota alerts to go away.  I finally gave in and\nbought Urth its own home -- welcome to\nhttp://www.urth.net/urth !\n\n[snip]\n\nRanjit."
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        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And at 5:53 pm GMT, William Ansley replied:"
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          "text": "Ranjit,\n\nThis is wonderful. Thank you.\n\nIt is all too easy for me to forget that someone is doing a great\ndeal of work and spending a great deal of time to make the\nUrth and Whorl mailing lists, web sites and archives exist and\nfunction so smoothly. As with so much of the web, I have more\nor less been taking it for granted that these resources would\njust always be there, although in the back of my mind I knew this\nwasn't true.\n\nSo I would like to take this opportunity to say that I am very\ngrateful that you are continuing to support this site; it has given\nme a great deal of pleasure and provided me with a lot of enter-\ntainment over the last few years. . . .\n\nWilliam Ansley"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "I can't say it any better, and so I won't try.  Thank you, Ranjit.\nWhut he sed.\n\nMark Millman"
        }
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