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 # <img src="/static/img/jolly-roger-unshifted.jpg" width="60"> cryptoanarchy.wiki
 
 ## Cypherpunks Mailing List Archive
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+This repository is used to create the jekyll-generated HTML code that is generated by code which is stored in the [cryptoanarchywiki/mailing-list-archive](https://github.com/cryptoanarchywiki/mailing-list-archive) repository.
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+This mailing list archive was generated using raw archives available at [cypherpunks.venona.com/raw/](http://cypherpunks.venona.com/raw/).
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+The code that was used to parse these archives into a structured database of messages can be found at [tombusby/cypherpunk-mailing-list-archive-parser](https://github.com/tombusby/cypherpunk-mailing-list-archive-parser). The .md files that are used by this repository are also generated by this repo. I will clear this repo up and provide usage instructions in the near future.