Clue to So-Called Missing Jim Bell-AP Messages

[Mirimir]

On 01/04/2020 03:03 PM, John Young wrote:
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> In-Reply-To: <200101082217.RAA29708 at johnson.mail.mindspring.net>
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> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:59:33 -0800
> To: John Young <jya at pipeline.com>, cypherpunks at cyberpass.net
> From: Tim May <tcmay at got.net>
> Subject: Re: Bell Case Subpoena
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> 
> At 5:09 PM -0500 1/8/01, John Young wrote:
>>Today at 4:30 PM two Treasury agents, Tom Jack and Matthew
>>Mc Whirr, served me a Subpoena to Testify Before Grand Jury,
>>in US District Court of Western Washington, Seattle, WA, on
>>January 25, 2001, 9:00 AM. Robb London, AUSA, is the
>>applicant.
>>
>>The subpoena states in bold caps "We request that you do not
>>disclose the existence of this subpoena, because such a
>>disclosure may make it more difficult to conduct the investigation."
>>...
>>   Please provide any and all documents, papers, letters, computer
>>   disks, photographs, notes, objects, information, or other items
>>   in your possession or under your control, including electronically
>>   stored or computer records, which:
>>
>>     1. Name, mention, describe, discuss, involve or relate to James
>>     Dalton Bell, a/k/a Jim Bell, or
> 
> 
> By the way, John, thanks for the "heads up." I purged my archives of
> Jim Bell e-mail sent directly to me, though I left on my system the
> e-mail he copied the list on.
> 
> 
> (Yes, I purged the back-ups, too. A good reason not to back up e-mail
> to CD-Rs.)
> 
> 
> --Tim May

I thought that was obvious.

And I remember seeing new of it on the list.

But I don't have any backups that old. Every few years, I burn anything
that's not related to what I'm doing currently. Literally.