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  "thread": {
    "id": 242,
    "subject": "Amazon.com",
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    "first": "1997-03-25T17:33:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-03-25T17:33:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0280@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-03-25T17:33:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Amazon.com",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #3244542 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02#\n\nA number of people have recently ordered LEXICON URTHUS through\nAmazon.com and are becoming concerned about the amount of time it is\ntaking to get their books.\n\nThe short answer is: LEXICON URTHUS is still available; the big\n(thank you!) order to Amazon.com has been shipped--your books are on\ntheir way; thank you for your patience; thank you for your orders!\n\nThe long answer is:\n\nSirius Fiction likes Amazon.com =a lot=.  In 1996 Amazon ordered\nfrom Sirius several times and we had it down to a routine.\n\nThen, without warning, the local company providing voicemail for Sirius\nFiction changed the Sirius voicemail phone number.\n\nAs a result, the happy routine of ordering from Sirius Fiction was\ndestroyed.  There was confusion.  While I don't know for certain, I\ncan easily imagine that folks at Amazon thought, \"How sad, there goes\nanother micropress,\" since that is the most logical answer to the\nmystery of a dead phone line.\n\nHowever, through painstaking work on both sides, Amazon and Sirius\nhave formed a bridge over the crater, paved a new detour, plumbed a\nnew pipeline.  This construction has resulted in a regrettable delay,\nand we thank our customers for their patience.  But now the ribbon is\ncut, the traffic light is green, the main valve is open--the Amazon\norder flows on a rising tide.\n\nAnd future orders of LEXICON URTHUS from Amazon.com will not be so\ndelayed.\n\n=mantis=\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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