{
  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/446",
    "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": 446,
    "subject": "Urth's Unknown Names",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-03-27T02:49:20+00:00",
    "last": "1998-03-27T08:55:38+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0008-0669@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "C R Culver",
        "address": "crculver at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-03-27T02:49:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth's Unknown Names",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Just been thinking lately about secret, forgotten, or just plain unknown names\nin the BotNS:\n\n1) Hethor's real name\n2) The real name of the town that forgot Fauna\n3) Valeria's second husband (who *was* he? any ideas?)\n4) The names of the planets beside Urth, Verthandi, Skuld, and Dis.\n5) The names of the 17 Megatherians (doesn't really matter, though), or a\nsingle member of the Group of Seventeen\n6) The previous Lictor of Thrax.\n7) Cyriaca's husband.\n8) The name of Dorcas' (\"Cas\") husband.\n9) The Cumaean's real name, if any.\n10) The name (and purpose) of Baldanders' undine.\n\nChristopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>\nhttp://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0008-0671@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at ifh.de"
      },
      "date": "1998-03-27T08:55:38+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Urth's Unknown Names",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0008-0669@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "C R Culver wrote:\nJust been thinking lately about secret, forgotten, or just plain\nunknown names in the BotNS:\n\n5) The names of the 17 Megatherians (doesn't really matter, though), or a\nsingle member of the Group of Seventeen"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I always assumed the latter were referred to simply as `Member of the\nGroup of Seventeen', or something such?  It doesn't seem likely they\ngo in for shining dinner party repartee (reminds me of a comedy sketch\nin a car factor with the punchline `Built by Roberts').  Is there any\nindication that the leaders, unlike the rest, have real names?  I\nalways associated Ascians with ASCII, maybe they're called NUL, BEL,\n...\n\nPeter"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}