On 1/27/2021 4:18 PM, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > On 1/6/21 4:28 PM, Falsifian via agora-official wrote: >> u Wes wesc at ichips.intel.com 5 Apr 94 >> u Timothy timothy.ferguson at jcu.edu.au 12 Sep 94 >> u Chuck ccarroll at students.wisc.edu 5 Apr 94 > > > This is not in order of ascending date. >
Actually... I'm not sure that 5 Apr 94 date means what the report currently suggests. Chuck, for example, has two lines entered one here: >> u Chuck ccarroll at students.wisc.edu 5 Apr 94 and one here: >> a Chuck games_na at chuckcarroll.org 1 Sep 93 8 Jun 01 If 5 Apr 94 is taken as a deregistration date for Chuck, these entries are in conflict. 5 Apr 94 lists many "deregistrations". None of those entry lines have two dates (registration and deregistration dates). It so happens that 5 Apr 94 is one of the earliest reports of players available in the extended archives (in Oerjan's mboxes listed on Zefram's page). If you look back at a random report from say 2017, the alignment is more uncertain, and some of those 5 Apr 94 entries are lined up with registration, not deregistration: https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2017-May/011506.html I looked through the events in Oerjan's archive around that 5 Apr 94 date and couldn't find any evidence of mass deregistrations. Finally, if you look at the first available 2002 report, those entries are entirely missing: https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2002-November/000008.html My guess is that, sometime after 2002, a registrar tried to reconstruct registration dates from the earliest available archives (the 5 Apr 94 player report in Oerjan's archives), and listed those players with their earliest evidence of registration but not deregistration, and that has since gotten column-mangled? -G.
