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  "thread": {
    "id": 1499,
    "subject": "dual list discussion",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2001-12-10T18:41:19+00:00",
    "last": "2001-12-10T19:32:04+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n173.4@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-12-10T19:12:06+00:00",
      "subject": "dual list discussion",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I have a request to make. \n\nCould everyone who has a comment to make about whether to have one or two Wolfe\ndiscussion lists and what they should be called please post to the Urth list\nalone or cross post to both Urth and Whorl. \n\nI would prefer the former but the latter is much to be preferred over having\nthis discussion wander off into two separate threads, as it is threatening to\ndo.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n173.5@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-12-10T19:32:04+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) dual list discussion",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n173.4@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Spectacled Bear was kind enough to write:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 04:36 2001-12-10, William Ansley wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I think we should have one list, or two. <g>\n\nI think the Urth and Whorl lists should be combined into a single list, but\nI would like to see a second list for discussion of authors of interest to this\ngroup, other than Wolfe. (They could be called the Urth and Earth lists.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"Now *that's* clever.\"  - Wallace, in \"The Wrong Trousers\".\n\nSpectacled Bear, who thought of the same lists but would never have come up"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "with such a good name."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "I should have made it very clear that I make no claim to have come up with the\ndivision of focus of the two discussion lists I describe above. I don't know\nwho came up with it first, but I have seen the same basic idea raised more than\none and more than twice.\n\nI have to admit that I also think my names are clever, but I now realize they\nwould be a pain in the neck if we ever had to \"talk\" about the lists with someone\nelse. (\"Did you mean 'U-erth' or 'E-erth'?\")\n\nI think Blattid's suggestion, \"Urth\" and \"Sky\", is at least as clever as my\nidea, much more appropriate and avoids that pronouciation problem.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n173.6@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Spectacled Bear",
        "address": "spectacled.bear at pobox.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-12-10T18:41:19+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Re: (urth) dual list discussion",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n173.5@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "At 19:32 2001-12-10, William Ansley wrote:\nI have to admit that I also think my names are clever, but I now realize they\nwould be a pain in the neck if we ever had to \"talk\" about the lists with someone\nelse. (\"Did you mean 'U-erth' or 'E-erth'?\")"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "True."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I think Blattid's suggestion, \"Urth\" and \"Sky\", is at least as clever as my\nidea, much more appropriate and avoids that pronouciation problem."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Poetic, too. Gets my vote!\n\nSpectacled Bear."
        }
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