one's poisonal blog

[ted]

You said you were unable to archive this stuff. 

You working for Ashcroft now?

B Huerta.

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:26:36 -0500 Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>
wrote:

> listening to experts in Moscow being
> interviewed
> by a French Internet news station. Putin was 
> elected by promising to retake Chechnya. now
> as one interviewer explains he is caught in his
> own
> trap 
> 
> up to 1000 hostages are in their second day
> in a theater in the heart of Moscow taken
> hostage by 40 male and female Chechen jihadi.
> by the usual standards these are humanitarian
> jihadi. they have shot dead only one person 
> a woman who attempted to flee
> 
> they are demanding that in 7 days Putin
> commence
> a withdrawal of Russian troops from their 
> country
> 
> on another subject i have enabled the archive
> option for austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> to which you are subscribed:
> 
> http://pairlist.net/pipermail/austin-ghetto-list/
> 
> (no password required)
> 
> this option organizes the messages of the day
> by thread which seems to me to give a
> collective
> meaning to messages which, when received
> singly,
> seem to be little more than gibberish
> 
> the attached screen grab shows one day's worth
> of messages on the top -- all 2K of it
> the other 7 time periods are the archives for
> the 7 months BEFORE i realized that the
> archives
> were being archived by default at which time i
> deactivated the archive option
> 
> to the extent that i am talking to myself, the
> http://pairlist.net/pipermail/austin-ghetto-list/
> URL
> becomes a kind of poisonal blog, blogs having
> become
> a big thing on the internet. blog, like the
> 'hood, is
> an elipse for a Web page based log of one's
> poisonal
> thoughts
> 
> you may find it amusing to click on one of the
> month's
> archives and be reminding of messages well
> worth
> deleting. i did
> 
> NB: no electrons were permanently harmed in the
> 
> composition of this message
>