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I am including Ryan Lackey in this thread, since he seems to have been involved in the Cypherpunks archive during the relevant time frame.
Ryan, I have discovered extensive data omissions in (at least) the 1995 Cypherpunks data archive. These errors or omissions seem to have existed as early as 2003. They have been discussed for a few weeks on the Cypherpunks list. There is an almost total omission of emails between the dates of about February 14, 1995, and July 10, 1995. Furthermore, from July 11 1995 onwards to the end of 1995, there are almost no strings like this:
"jim bell", "jimbell@pacifier.com", " AP ", "Assassination Politics".
Yet, there are thousands of other messages. It appears that emails containing such strings, and possibly others, have been carefully excised from the database, Curiously, the very few (15?) instances where " AP " appears are almost entirely referring to the Associated Press, not Assassination Politics, So, this editing could not easily have been done with a simple, blind string-search: It probably would have had to include careful human assistance.
We'd like to hear of your recollection of the history of the Cypherpunks Archive, how it came to be, etc.
Jim Bell