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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/800",
    "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": 800,
    "subject": "Endangered Species and Walking Towers",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-06-15T16:30:24+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-16T09:21:44+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0014-0004@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ranjit Bhatnagar",
        "address": "ranjit at moonmilk.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-15T16:30:24+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Endangered Species and Walking Towers",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Marty Light writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Are \"Endangered Species\" and \"Planet Engineering\" still in\nprint?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Amazon.com lists Endangered Species as \"out of stock\" and\nPlanet Engineering as \"out of print.\"  The implication is\nthat the former might be reprinted soon but the latter\nwon't.\n\n\nAlso:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I've always assumed it was some sort of\nmajor-league mining equipment -- perhaps an overgrown pile\ndriver. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "There's a \"drag-mining\" machine that stands a few dozen\nstories tall and walks on gargantuan pneumatic feet.  Saw it\non cable teevee last night.  It looks more like an oil rig\nthan a tower.\n\n\nFinally, Dan Parmenter writes"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Hey folks, let's have a group hug and slow down, eh?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "To which I concur.  Stay cool and you won't feel my WRATH.\n\n\tr.\n\tURTH den mother"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0014-0023@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Bowman",
        "address": "bvmi at odin.cc.pdx.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-16T09:21:44+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Endangered Species and Walking Towers",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0014-0004@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:\nMarty Light writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Are \"Endangered Species\" and \"Planet Engineering\" still in\nprint?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Amazon.com lists Endangered Species as \"out of stock\" and\nPlanet Engineering as \"out of print.\"  The implication is\nthat the former might be reprinted soon but the latter\nwon't."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I found a copy of Plan[e]t Engineering via Bibliofind a few months ago, \nand it was fairly cheap. If you're not familiar with Bibliofind, it is a \ndatabase of many rare and used book stores. When you search you're \nsearching, and ordering online from, many stores. They also take want lists.\n\nBibliofind is at www.bibliofind.com\n\nThere are two other similar services: Interloc at www.interloc.com and \nABE at www.abebooks.com.\n\nMichael Bowman\nbvmi at odin.cc.pdx.edu"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}