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Duncan Truter · 23 Nov 2008, 07:43 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: dtruter at gmail.com (Duncan Truter)
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:43:20 -0800
Subject: (urth) please don't reply all and quote the entire digest
Message-ID: <1a0930df0811222343o61a8d096w542a742cac14e5e8 at mail.gmail.com>

it makes messages longer than they need to be.

Duncan

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