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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2701",
    "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": 2701,
    "subject": "...sigh...",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2001-06-28T09:58:46+00:00",
    "last": "2001-06-28T14:16:38+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0516@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-28T09:58:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) ...sigh...",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "Maybe this is why some hard SF people can't stand Wolfe."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "That, and the fact that his stories aren't generally about \nproblems to be solved by technological means."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Except maybe \"Alien Stones.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Do we have to argue about _everything_ around here? \n\n(Stumbles backward at the deafening massed roar of YEEESSSS!)\n\nOh. Okay. Well, then, in that case, may I point out the word\n\"generally\" in my previous post...\n\nBlatt, blatt,"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0518@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-28T14:16:38+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) ...sigh...",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0030-0516@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 4,
          "text": "On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\nMaybe this is why some hard SF people can't stand Wolfe."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "That, and the fact that his stories aren't generally about \nproblems to be solved by technological means."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Except maybe \"Alien Stones.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Do we have to argue about _everything_ around here? "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Sorry I wasn't clear.  I mentioned that more as the exception that proves\nyour rule.  It's a nifty engineer's spin on \"solved by technological\nmeans\" that I wouldn't have thought to describe that way if you hadn't\nused that phrase.\n\nAnd, of course, the story's about more than a problem to be solved by\ntechnological means.\n\nI didn't get the ending (particularly the bit about one's marital status\nin the resurrection) until I reread it after the whole Clinton/Lewinsky\naffair, which made me laugh when the aliens said \"It depends on how you\ndefine 'is'\" -- which made me pay more attention to the comment and\nrealize what they were talking about.\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
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