I'm trying to understand site https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 01:16:34AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
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>     On Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 06:05:34 PM PDT, Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:  
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>  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
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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?
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> >Sorry, too slow this morning: http://cypherpunks.venona.com/raw/
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> 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.