can i confirm that this is the Venona archive merged with the 2000-2016 archive from this post: [1]https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-July/042515.html i.e. that we don't have a new, overlapping archive of the 90s period? I'm assuming venona is still the only game in town for the 90s period. On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 18:54, Tom Busby wrote: oh fantastic, thank you very much. looks great. On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 04:00, Greg Newby <[2]gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote: Dear Tom, You might be interested to see that I recently merged the archives. (I am the current list operator.) You can find it browsable and a few other formats. This spans September 1992-July 2013 in the cypherpunks-legacy collection. The current (ongoing) list is in the main cypherpunks collection, from 2013-present. They are both here:  [3]https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo Announcement/description:  [4]https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-December/0782 30.html Best,  Greg On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 09:41:57PM +0100, Tom Busby wrote: > 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 Fri, 3 Jan 2020, 20:27 jim bell, <[5]jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, January 3, 2020, 02:16:28 AM PST, Tom Busby > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 08:25, jim bell <[6]jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Jeffrey Epstein: Surveillance Video From First Suicide Attempt Missinghttps://[7]www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jeffrey-epstein-survei llance-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. > > > > References 1. https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-July/042515.html 2. mailto:gbnewby@pglaf.org 3. https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo 4. https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-December/078230.html 5. mailto:jdb10987@yahoo.com 6. mailto:jdb10987@yahoo.com 7. http://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jeffrey-epstein-surveillance-video-first-184510141.html