# Ascian *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Jan 2011* > 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. --- ### Robin Dunn *21 Jan 2011, 05:37* This may have come up before, but I believe Ascian comes from the Latin for "no shadow" as the Ascians are supposed to be near the equator. Wolfe says as much in an interview somewhere. ---