On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 21:32:39 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
So, where did the rest of my comments go? While I don't have my own emails from this period, I know that by July 1995 I had published Part 2 of AP, and Part 1 must have appeared well before that. How suspicious am I supposed to be? I did find some, even many, of my own emails as early as December 1995, but that should have been 6 months after I appeared on CP.
Well, apparentely if you posted anything before december 1995, it's not in those archives. (do you recall if you had another address apart from jimbell@pacifier.com? )
At the same time, however, it appears that there are MANY threads from 1995 that are being archived. I don't see any way that "all" of my pre-December-1995 emails could disappear, yet leaving hundreds (?) of other postings on threads that don't include any (?) of my comments.
I haven't read all the messages in order, so I can't tell if there's stuff missing inbetween them. I might give it a try. It's technically possible to delete all your messages, and replies/references to them I guess, but it seems somewhat unlikely? Or else the archives have indeed been carefuly edited...