On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 01:16:34AM +0000, jim bell wrote:

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> >> 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/

Which works out to be:

Index of /raw/

../
cyp-1992.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:17             2254089
cyp-1993.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:19            21564267
cyp-1994.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:21            34176952
cyp-1995.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:22            29133386
cyp-1996.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:23            61664183
cyp-1997.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:30            59523642
cyp-1998.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:31            31488001

> 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".

Index of /raw/

Yes, I shouldn't be using this crappy Windows 10. But I am.

>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.

It's curious that you don't address the problem that your own references reveal:

From:

Index of /raw/

../
cyp-1992.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:17             2254089
cyp-1993.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:19            21564267
cyp-1994.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:21            34176952
cyp-1995.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:22            29133386
cyp-1996.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:23            61664183
cyp-1997.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:30            59523642
cyp-1998.txt                                       10-Nov-2009 18:31            31488001

I will focus on the 1995 and 1996 archives, since they are the most relevant  (Found using the Chrome browser)

                                                   Number of occurances in:

String:                                  cyp-1995.txt                                                        cyp-1996.txt

jim bell                               101    (the firstone is November 5, 1995)              3,678   (First being January 3, 1996)
Assassination Politics        7       (the first being dated Dec 31, 1995)              298    (first being Jan 2, 1996)

The complete omission of "jim bell" and "assassination politics" during the April-October 1995 period MIGHT be innocent, IF the "1995" database only started listing postings in, say, November 1995,  Innocent omission,

But it didn't.   It listed postings on January 1, 1995, but there is a major gap between about March 1995 and May 1995, and another one until July.

I have to ask you, and everyone else here:  I think complete omissions of data, over time, MIGHT be 'innocent'. But it appears that the July 1995-beginning of November 1995 time frame have huge numbers of postings, but there is not even a single reference to "Jim Bell" or "Assassination Pollitics" (don't know about AP...that's a lot of checking...) for at least 5 consecutive months, seven months if you count April through October 1995.

Who can explain why, during a period in which me and my AP were presumably one of the bigger stories, there are NO NO NO references?

Maybe you shouldn't even try to explain it.  We are not suckers.

            Jim Bell