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  "thread": {
    "id": 2009,
    "subject": "Seeley; FAQ",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-12-02T15:37:52+00:00",
    "last": "1999-12-02T17:09:30+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0582@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Lebling",
        "address": "dlebling at shore.net"
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      "date": "1999-12-02T17:09:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Seeley; FAQ",
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          "text": "From: Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe at apocalypse.org>\n<<I know of two lists of these mysteries. One is in an old Usenet message by\nDonn Seeley that I have kept and treasured since the early Eighties.>>\n\nI remember reading this one long, long ago as well. I've lost my copy.  If\nyou could post it to the list or just to me, I'd be very grateful.\n\nI second the idea of compiling an Urth-FAQ.  But who will bell the cat?\n\n    -- Dave Lebling\n    (aka vizcacha)"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0584@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ron Hale-Evans",
        "address": "rwhe at apocalypse.org"
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      "date": "1999-12-02T15:37:52+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Seeley; FAQ",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0582@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "At 05:09 PM 12/2/99 -0500, Dave Lebling wrote:\nFrom: Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe at apocalypse.org>\n<<I know of two lists of these mysteries. One is in an old Usenet message by\nDonn Seeley that I have kept and treasured since the early Eighties.>>\n\nI remember reading this one long, long ago as well. I've lost my copy.  If\nyou could post it to the list or just to me, I'd be very grateful.\n\nI second the idea of compiling an Urth-FAQ.  But who will bell the cat?"
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          "text": "I'll be glad to post the Seeley list later this afternoon or evening. (I'm\non Pacific time.)\n\nAs for belling the cat, I'll do it if no one else will. But who will watch\nthe Watchmen? (Who's to decide finally what the \"real\" answers are to the\nhard mysteries, when Wolfe says he's not sure about some of them himself\nany longer?) Perhaps we can list alternate solutions together, with the\nmost plausible ones first.\n\nBTW, are you the Dave Lebling who co-authored the Zork series? If so: Was\n_The Lives of the Twelve Flatheads_ in Zork a play on _The Lives of the\nSeventeen Megatherians_ in Wolfe?\n\nRon H-E"
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          "text": "Ron Hale-Evans: rwhe at apocalypse.org  ... <http://www.apocalypse.org/~rwhe/>\nCenter for Ludic Synergy:        <http://www.ludism.org/>\nKennexions GBG artgame:          <http://kennexions.ludism.org/>\nHexagram-8 I Ching Mailing List: <http://www.apocalypse.org/~rwhe/hex8.html>\nPositive Revolution FAQ:         <http://www.ludism.org/posrev/>"
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