On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 01:16:34AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
On Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 06:05:34 PM PDT, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 12:04:04PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 12:00:07AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
In the last couple of days, I wanted to remind myself of the timing of the first appearance of my Assassination Politics essay on the Cypherpunks list. My recollection is that I published Part 1 on the Digitaliberty mailing list, maintained by Bill Frezza, on FIDOnet. At that time, I was unaware of the existence of the Cypherpunks email list. At some point, somebody saw my essay, and posted a reference (or a copy) to Cypherpunks, I believe. And at some point, I was invited to the Cypherpunks list. But over 24 years later, I don't recall the exact timing. I know, I believe, that Part 2 wasn't written until later in July, 1995.
So to recall this, I just searched for 'cypherpunks archive'. I found the site listed in the title, figuring that it would contain the information I sought. https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/ That looked promising. I looked at: mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki which, promisingly, showed the years 1992-1999. So far, so good, Since the information I sought should have appeared in 1995, I clicked on that year, Weirdly, the information for March and April and June was not present, Huh? This was, pretty much, the time frame I needed to search, Am I imagining things? Could somebody look for various strings, like "Jim Bell", or "Assassination Politics", or "AP", etc? Well, it's not like my existence was entirely deleted. https://mailing-list->archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/jim_bell_jimbell_at_pacifier_com_/ But something very weird is going on, The information I sought, is not included, Is this a mere accident? What is the pattern, here? Jim Bell
Does anyone have a single file or zip of "up to 1999", that we could use to complete our historical archives?
Sorry, too slow this morning: http://cypherpunks.venona.com/raw/
Well, I looked at the file http://cypherpunks.venona.com/raw/cyp-1995.txt using my browser. First, I looked for "Assassination Politics", and found two (yes, TWO) references,I then looked for "AP" and found nothing, What is going on?
Jim, you should be using a command line environment with the command "grep". Download that or another text file. Then use the grep command to search for whichever term you are interested in, e.g. "grep -in $TERM file.txt" The -i option ignores case, making the search case insensitive. The -n option also gives you line numbers where the search term is found.