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ICEB 8-Dot Committee Archives

Monthly Deliberations Records

The deliberations record for a given month includes all the messages sent by committee members and observers during that month. Each file is a standard ZIP archive, given a first name that starts with the two characters "e8" followed by the 4-digit year and a one-character month digit (with a = October, b = November, and c = December). Thus "e819994.zip" is the record for April 1999. This convention is maintained throughout. The contents of the ZIP archive is a text file in the form of a "standard mailbox" of the kind used by a number of popular mail handling systems (e.g. Eudora). The name of that file is the same as that of the archive, except that the extension is MBX. Within a mailbox file, each message is preceded by a line starting with the exact text:
From ???@???
(followed by a date on the same line).

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