I'm just a guy with a website. Believe me, it saddens me that so much is lost, that's why I originally started trying to piece it all together, but my leads ran cold, and if you go look at the commit logs for crypto anarchy.wiki you'll see how little time I've had to work on it lately.
In terms of whether this is deliberate forgery or just lost data, I have no way of finding out because I don't have other copies of the archive to compare with. That's the only way to do it. And even then I can only detect tampering, not innocent loss of data. I was under ten years old during this period so I'm flying blind in terms of what it should look like.
I'm not a player in this drama, I'm just a guy who is mirroring what's available so that isn't lost too.
I simply don't have the time to help you at the moment. I have too many other commitments. I haven't even found time to merge the 1999-onwards archive.
If you find a lead on any of it, let me know. As far as I can tell, Ryan Lackey is the only one who can help you. This archive originates on Venona. That I'm pretty sure about. If he won't respond to you, I don't know what can be done. I really hope someone else finds an archive of this era, because it's the most important era for sure.
But other than that, please bear in mind that I'm on your side. We both have the same goal: a complete, accurate archive. I've done what I can so far. I won't have time to work on this actively in the near future.
On Friday, January 3, 2020, 02:16:28 AM PST, Tom Busby <tom@busby.ninja> wrote:
>>And John Gilmore, Ryan Lackey, Tom Busby, and Declan McCullagh don't seem to care
>It's not that I don't care, I just don't know what I can do about it. This appears to be the only copy of the archive available.
>If anyone else has a more complete archive, send it to me and I'll merge it.
You are thinking solely in terms of correcting the archive. That's a limited view. I'm thinking of finding out who is responsible for the well-planned omissions in the archive. From where was the data obtained? When was the faking of the data done? Who did it? Why?
Who had control of the Cypherpunks list during the 1995-2003 time frame? Was the data stored elsewhere, such as the Wayback Machine?
Jim Bell
Jeffrey Epstein: Surveillance Video From First Suicide Attempt Missing
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jeffrey-epstein-surveillance-video-first-184510141.html
Jim Bell's comment:
Missing, just like a few thousand postings to me, from me, about me, and any mentioning Assassination Politics in the 1995 Cypherpunks archive.
And John Gilmore, Ryan Lackey, Tom Busby, and Declan McCullagh don't seem to care. Neither does Brian Merchant nor Will Stephenson.
Concealing the past by erasing the evidence is an old story.