On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 05:27:11PM -0800, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > 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.
Thanks. Will take a look some time later. If I can't figure it out I can at least note the uncertainty. -- Falsifian
