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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3170",
    "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.",
    "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'"
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 3170,
    "subject": "Technical Difficulties - Please Stand By",
    "messages": 4,
    "voices": 4,
    "first": "2002-04-18T19:11:19+00:00",
    "last": "2002-04-22T07:26:51+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-684@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ranjit Bhatnagar",
        "address": "ranjit at moonmilk.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-18T19:11:19+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Technical Difficulties - Please Stand By",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Something funny is going on with the mailing list software,\nand I've asked the system administrator to look into it.  If\nyou send a message that gets rejected, try again in a day or\ntwo. \n\n- Ranjit"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-689@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice K. Turner",
        "address": "aturner6 at nyc.rr.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-19T12:55:06+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Technical Difficulties - Please Stand By",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0204-684@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Something funny is going on with the mailing list software,\nand I've asked the system administrator to look into it.  If\nyou send a message that gets rejected, try again in a day or\ntwo.\n\n- Ranjit"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "It might help if everyone would please turn off their MIME or \"rich text\"\nabilities in favor of \"\"plain text\" for Urth messages--you, Ratty, are a\nsinner here--as are, more forgivably, the newbies. All that formatting takes\nup a lot of space.\n\n-alga"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-694@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan4 at cox.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-19T16:00:44+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Technical Difficulties - Please Stand By",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0204-689@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "At 07:55 AM 4/19/2002, you wrote:\nSomething funny is going on with the mailing list software,\nand I've asked the system administrator to look into it.  If\nyou send a message that gets rejected, try again in a day or\ntwo.\n\n- Ranjit"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "It might help if everyone would please turn off their MIME or \"rich text\"\nabilities in favor of \"\"plain text\" for Urth messages--you, Ratty, are a\nsinner here--as are, more forgivably, the newbies. All that formatting takes\nup a lot of space.\n\n-alga"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I'm using Eudora. If someone knows how to turn this off, and can give me \ndirections, I'll be happy to do so. I cannot figure it out from what Eudora \nprovides. I'm computer and internet illiterate.\n\nNutria (Ratty)"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-739@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "matthew.malthouse",
        "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-22T07:26:51+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Technical Difficulties - Please Stand By",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0204-694@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I'm using Eudora. If someone knows how to turn this off, and can give me\ndirections, I'll be happy to do so. I cannot figure it out from what\nEudora\nprovides. I'm computer and internet illiterate."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "For Eudora 5.1.  In the menu bar go to tools...\n\nSelect the Options...  (on a PC) or Settings... (on a Mac) item.\n\nIn the panel that comes up on the left hand side select \"Styled Text\"\n\nOf the options then presented select \"Send plain text only\".\n\n\nHTH\n\nMatthew"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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