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  "thread": {
    "id": 293,
    "subject": "For the Gene Pool",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-05-15T19:23:48+00:00",
    "last": "1997-05-15T19:23:48+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0280@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ranjit Bhatnagar",
        "address": "ranjit at gradient.cis.upenn.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-05-15T19:23:48+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) For the Gene Pool",
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          "text": "Um, does it have to be in the form of a question?\n\nI feel like I'm dealing with a tricky gen-ie, and if I say\n\"Can you give me a brief biography of Maytera Mint\" the\nresponse will be \"Yes.  Next question.\"  And I will have\nwasted my wish.\n\nBy the way, you may have noticed that the Whorl and Urth\narchives are missing.  That's because my web site has gone\nto mainframe -- or, I should say, has been deleted from\nmainframe.  Luckily, I have shards of the site hidden away\nhere and there; I hope to revive it within a week or so.\n\n\tranjit\n\n\n\"You can't coat a wolf in chocolate because the wolf already has its own fur\"\n\t\t\t\t\t               -- Three Mustaphas Three"
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