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Re: Accessing archives for Poll By Email No. 30

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, May 5, 2003, 0:41
Sally Caves scripsit:

> Oh, easy! Thanks, John. Does it go back any further in time than September > 1998, she asked wistfully.
Alas, there is a big gap between 1994 and 1998 in terms of publicly available archives. I keep meaning to post my private archives (which are somewhat damaged, but still have a lot of content), but I never get around to it.
> March of 1998 with three different registers of Teonaht (how to ask politely > and impolitely for change for tenpence for the subway)--all now lost because > of several computer overhauls over the years. Sigh.
Oh, very well, grumble grumble. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com Micropayment advocates mistakenly believe that efficient allocation of resources is the purpose of markets. Efficiency is a byproduct of market systems, not their goal. The reasons markets work are not because users have embraced efficiency but because markets are the best place to allow users to maximize their preferences, and very often their preferences are not for conservation of cheap resources. --Clay Shirkey

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