Usenet seems like a good place to look, and I can go back to Dec 4, 1999 that way: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sci.math/r9pz4ScvUxg/x8p6V028UA0J https://gro

Usenet seems like a good place to look, and I can go back to Dec 4, 1999 that way: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sci.math/r9pz4ScvUxg/x8p6V028UA0J https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sci.math/r9pz4ScvUxg/x8p6V02... Someone named "Nathaniel Silver" replied, and I wonder if that's the political and sports forecaster or someone else of the same name.