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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3658",
    "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'"
  },
  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 3658,
    "subject": "WTF?",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2002-12-10T13:40:59+00:00",
    "last": "2002-12-10T20:48:52+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0212-2378@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-12-10T13:40:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) WTF?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I scanned the recent message on the Urth archive with some chagrin - what has \nthe world come to when a Wolfe mailing list is used to pull off an identity \nscam in Nigeria?  It's kind of fitting.  I had a similar message in my \nindividual inbox last week, from a different sender.  Anyone else get this \nmessage individually, or was it just me?  Take care.\nMarc Aramini"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0212-2380@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-12-10T16:55:51+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) WTF?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0212-2378@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I scanned the recent message on the Urth archive with some \nchagrin - what has the world come to when a Wolfe mailing\nlist is used to pull off an identity scam in Nigeria? "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Odd. I did not receive this."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "It's kind of fitting. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Indeed it is. And while I have not seen any specifically\nWolfean responses to the Nigeria scam, members of this list\nmight be amused by this Lovecraftian response (not totally\nirrelevant; there are some clear Lovecraft hommages in \n\"New Sun\"):\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/steerp1ke/David_Ehi.html"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I had a similar message in my individual inbox last week,\nfrom a different sender.  Anyone else get this message\nindividually, or was it just me?  Take care."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I've gotten a number of these over the last year or so --\nthey've almost become an art form of their own, a sort of\nconstantly mutating and shifting set of details around a\nbasic core of grift."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0212-2381@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-12-10T20:48:52+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) WTF?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0212-2380@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Marc Aramini wrote:\nI scanned the recent message on the Urth archive with some chagrin - what\nhas"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "the world come to when a Wolfe mailing list is used to pull off an identity\nscam in Nigeria?  It's kind of fitting.  I had a similar message in my\nindividual inbox last week, from a different sender.  Anyone else get this\nmessage individually, or was it just me?  Take care.<<\n\nYeah, I got the list message too. I've also had the same (or similar; I\ndidn't read it that closely) message several times in recent months. I\ndeleted it but, iirc, it had a\"sent\" date sometime in October? I hope\nRanjit doesn't let the message even appear in the archives. Surely he can\nremove it.\n\n-Roy"
        }
      ]
    }
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