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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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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 2179,
    "subject": "\"fascinating\", exclaimed Spock in a flat emotionless",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-04-03T08:35:06+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-03T08:35:06+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0884@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-03T08:35:06+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) \"fascinating\", exclaimed Spock in a flat emotionless",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Talarican wrote:\nThe idea of a generation ship built inside a hollow rock, run by a\nsupercomputer which interacts with the inhabitants in the manner of a deity\nthrough a religion and priesthood, is completely original to Wolfe, right?"
        },
        {
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          "text": "Every bit as orginial as the idea of an orphan of unknown parentage,\nraised by a secret society, who on coming of age is given an extraordinary\nsword, undertakes a quest, finds that great powers have destined him for\ngreatness, overcomes an evil enemy, and takes his place as king.\n\nMaybe Wolfe stole that one from Star Trek too!\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
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