http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29627.html
Gateway in 'preference file' patent puzzle
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 07/03/2003 at 08:19 GMT
Proof that the US Department of Commerce employs robots to research
patent applications finally emerged this week.
On Monday,
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.J.RES.7:
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States
relative
to the reference to God in the Pledge of Allegiance and on United
States
currency. (Introduced in Senate)
SJ 7 IS
At 01:12 PM 3/6/03 -0800, Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
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From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:55 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff?
Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
-Original Message-
From:
At 10:08 PM 3/6/03 +, Richard Baker wrote:
Julia said:
Not opposed, but not entirely comfortable. And I know that the US was
prepared to use nukes to defend Europe against another entity that
also had nukes, which is different from using nukes against a country
that doesn't have them.
Of
At 04:18 PM 3/6/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Bryon wrote:
I also thought The Cat Who Walked Through Walls.and The Number of
the Beast were both rather lousy, myself. I enjoyed Time Enough for Love,
but he sure has some odd notions about sex in there (ie: the time travel
incest thing).
I
Ronn!Blankenship said:
We bring our troops home. Then President Bush makes another speech in
which he announces that if there's a terror attack against the US or
our interests (however we might define that: perhaps our citizens,
embassies, etc., abroad), within one hour maximum we will
From: Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've heard of people complaining of this before. I think it's a
vertigo-type reaction,
not an eye condition. You might even want to check the back of your game
manuals,
I remember seeing health warnings in some games about how to
reduce/mitigate this
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of Ronn!Blankenship
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:12 AM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff?
At 03:28 PM 3/6/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
I'm more curious as to under what
Ronn said:
So if they're no longer needed for the other purpose, why not use them
for that?
For three reasons, I suppose. Firstly, the public aren't likely to
support several hundred nuclear detonations per launch. Secondly,
atmsopheric nuclear explosions are prohibited by international
At 11:19 PM 3/6/03 +, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
Boys and girls:
Given the knowledgeable nature of our audience, I have a question to ask.
Perhaps someone here can steer me in the right direction or offer some advice.
I've experienced serious dizzy spells and nausea bouts while playing
At 09:59 PM 3/6/03 -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
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From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bullshit.
It that on your T-shirt?
If so, perhaps I can recommend a good laundry detergent, as well as
suggesting that one stay out of pastures . . .
-- Ronn! :)
Almighty
At 12:50 PM 3/4/03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Richard Baker
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:15 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Duplicate Messages
John said:
Don't know if this is a problem
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 08:12 pm, Nick Arnett wrote:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of William T Goodall
...
What about great artists ship? - the Xerox mouses cost $400 each (in
1980 money) and the Xerox Star cost $20,000 each or so.
On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 03:51 am, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 6 Mar 2003 at 23:16, William T Goodall wrote:
On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 10:20 pm, Bryon Daly wrote:
But speaking of pulpy and gratuitous - Anyone here read the Honor
Harrington series books by David Weber? I've read about
Kazakhstan tops North Korea's weapons shop list
SEOUL (AFP) Mar 06, 2003
Russia and Kazakhstan were the main suppliers of
fighters and other conventional weapons to North Korea
in the past ten years, according to a Swedish research
institute.
The website of the Stockholm International Peace
On Thu Mar 6 18:04:31 PST 2003, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 01:45 AM 3/4/03 -0500, Han Tacoma wrote:
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:35:29 -0800 Nick Arnett wrote:
[...snip...]
mistaken and by that time I had already left IBM with my early retirement
package and was learning a new life in a
Could the problem be the head-bob effect so common in 1st-person
shooters? Some games have the option to turn this off so that you get a
smoother motion. I've heard some say that this particular effect makes
them feel seasick.
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Poindexter
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 09:26 PM 3/6/03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
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From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff?
At 07:05 PM 3/6/03 -0600,
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 07:47 pm, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
A few days after 9/11 a friend of mine who is a Prof.
at the Kennedy School of Government commented that
_eventually_ people were going to be building suitcase
size nuclear weapons in small labs, or bioengineering
Black Plague level
Wal-Mart goofed on their webpage about The Hobbit. Someone mirrored it
before it was taken down.
http://fark.froggynet.com/~froggy/walmarthobbit.jpg
If you're looking for a chuckle, this might do you.
Julia
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The Astronomy Picture of the Day has an excellent map showing the
population densities in various counties and provinces:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030305.html
Does anyone one know where I could find an equivalent map showing per
capta income by county or province?
The last good
--- J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm sure the French were quite grateful for being
liberated by (among other
countries) the US. However, you seem to believe that
because the US took
part in the liberation of France over fifty years
ago, the French should
forever accept and
In a message dated 3/7/03 8:11:03 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wal-Mart goofed on their webpage about The Hobbit. Someone mirrored it
before it was taken down.
http://fark.froggynet.com/~froggy/walmarthobbit.jpg
If you're looking for a chuckle, this might do
On 7 Mar 2003 at 14:50, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this!
Doctor: Well, stop doing that!
Fresh Out Of More Helpful Suggestions Maru
-- Ronn! :)
But how am I going to get my game fix? By
From: G. D. Akin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
My sentimental favorite is Red Planet. I was home sick
with the flu when
I 10 or 11. My mother went to the library and on a lark she
brought me Red
Planet and Andre Norton's The Stars are Ours. I devoured
them and have
not been able to get
From: Matt Grimaldi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've gotten a few, especially from Mr. Zimmerman.
Ironically, I received *2* of this message!
- jmh
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From: Miller, Jeffrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How was it? I've been avoiding Brin lately (gasp!) as the
last 2 I read, Sundiver and Practice Effect, I found to be..
well, not my favorite books ever. Not bad, per se, just not
so great. Hearing what little I have about KP, I'm
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:04:04PM -, Andrew Crystall wrote:
The Church of Emacs, as I recall :P
Saint IgGNUcious. Or something like that.
--
Paul
In the immortal words of Socrates, who said: 'I drank what?'
- C. Knight
Paul Walker wrote:
Saint IgGNUcious. Or something like that.
Saint Free-ncis of A-Sourcey?
;-)
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Brin-L list pages ..
Julia Thompson wrote:
Wal-Mart goofed on their webpage about The Hobbit. Someone mirrored it
before it was taken down.
http://fark.froggynet.com/~froggy/walmarthobbit.jpg
If you're looking for a chuckle, this might do you.
Wow! I'll have to reread The Hobbit! How could I have fogotten
On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 09:18 am, The Fool wrote:
http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0304montini04.html
Of course, nothing in the ruling keeps citizens from pledging their
allegiance to the flag. Or to the republic for which it stands. Even
so,
there are Americans both in
On 6 Mar 2003 at 14:30, Julia Thompson wrote:
An editorial on Richard Stallman and why he is something of a secular
saint in the high-tech world:
http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/today/editorial_5.html
(It was the most pleasant thing on the editorial page today, IMO.)
I
http://www.eltsol.com/osama.gif
Maybe we need to be searching the world's golf courses for him!
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In what could be positive news for sci-fi fans, Vivendi Universal is trying
to entice Viacom, NBC, MGM and others to buy Sci Fi channel, the USA
Network, and other assets.
http://www.nydailynews.com/business/col/story/64757p-60335c.html
Something tells me a sign of impending death was Tremors,
An article that appeared in The Boston Globe,
while it seems to have come to my attention with title and date different
than my search at the Globe to confirm -- the contents are the same.
OUTLAWING SCIENCE [Stifling science under guise of protection]
Author(s): ELLEN GOODMAN
Date: March 6, 2003
The stuff below the URLs came to me as a joke, but it really isn't.
Water is perhaps a more serious issue than gas.
Source: The Center for Public Integrity
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Low Rates, Needed Repairs Lure Big Water to Uncle Sam's Plumbing
http://www.vgg.com/tp/tp_080700_fakeband.html
Behold the glory that is the ROCKLOPEDIA FAKEBANDICA, eighth revised,
unabridged edition! Finally, all the fictional bands and singers from
TV and movies listed in one convenient, scarily obsessive place. Why?
It's the Internet, stupid! The
From: Han Tacoma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: L3 Another breed of international criminals: Patients
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:15:23 -0500
An article that appeared in The Boston Globe,
while it seems to have come to my attention
Han Tacoma wrote:
Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 .. $10.32 per gallon
Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ... $ 9.52 per gallon
Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 ... $10.17 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 . $10.00 per gallon
Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 ... $33.60 per gallon
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Han Tacoma wrote:
and this is the REAL KICKER..
Evian water 9 oz for $1.49 $21.19 per gallon.
$21.19 FOR WATER! and the buyers don't even know the source.
As far as the water goes, if I bring my own container, I can get
Glacier
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Crystall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 07:40 AM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: PC-Vgames and Eye Problems: Help!
But how am I going to get my game fix? By replaying the original
Prince of Persia for the umpteenth
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: If You Think A Gallon Of Gas Is Expensive.
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:02:47 -0600
Han Tacoma wrote:
Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 .. $10.32 per
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: If You Think A Gallon Of Gas Is Expensive.
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:02:39 -0600
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Han Tacoma wrote:
and this is
From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: If You Think A Gallon Of Gas Is Expensive.
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:02:39 -0600
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030306-033044-3576r
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The Fool wrote:
The kicker is that distilled water is purer, tastes better, has fewer
contamininents, etc.
Taste is a matter of opinion. I happen not to agree with you 100%. Some
minerals in water improve the taste, IMO. (Only certain ones, though.)
Julia
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:12:27PM -0500, Bryon Daly wrote:
out of work. I recall some commie pinko-type remarks. I don't know if
Stallman really thinks that way, but I found the guy's venom amusing.
Yes, he does think that. It's one of the things that we don't agree on - but
I find I do
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: br!n: it's 3-3-3, in 4-4-4 it will be 7-7-7
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 05:29:45 -0600
At 04:18 PM 3/6/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Bryon wrote:
I also
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Behalf Of Richard Baker
John said:
Don't know if this is a problem on my end or the
list end...
If it's at your end, it's at my end too.
Let's have no more of that kind of talk. Kaiser
just called to tell me that
my doctor wants me to
On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 08:59 pm, Julia Thompson wrote:
The Fool wrote:
The kicker is that distilled water is purer, tastes better, has fewer
contamininents, etc.
Taste is a matter of opinion. I happen not to agree with you 100%.
Some
minerals in water improve the taste, IMO. (Only
At 02:02 PM 3/7/2003 -0600, you wrote:
58c at walmart, ~79c at supermarkets, ~$1.30 at convienece stores.
The kicker is that distilled water is purer, tastes better, has fewer
contamininents, etc.
http://www.purewaterinc.com/html/about_distillation_.htm
Only posting link because I wouldn't
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Flexible (was: Duplicate Messages)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:05:55 -0800 (PST)
snipped a bunch of probingly accurate discussion
GSV Endwash
(Yikes! - nearly
At 15:54 2003-03-05 -0500, Jon wrote:
I keep forgetting to post this:
There were no additional votes last week, so Dr. Brin's Earth has won.
Now for the hard part... :)
Jon
Notepad? Check.
Pen? Check.
Copy of _Earth_? Check.
OK, I'm ready.
Jean-Louis
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,899641,00.html
Saturday February 22, 2003
The Guardian
There are two things desirable for fighting fundamentalists. The first is
not to be one yourself. The US government's war on the movement is
somewhat compromised by the fact that it is run by
At 17:37 6-3-2003 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
And I have absolutely no intention whatsoever of starting a flame war.
Other people on this list have also made comments about the erosion of
civil rights/liberties in the US, and have mentioned that the US is on
its way to becoming a police state. Do
At 17:38 6-3-2003 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
At 09:45 PM 3/6/2003 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Well, as Bush already sent 300,000 troops to the region anyway, he might as
wll put them to good use and kick Israel out of the territories mentioned
in Resolution 242. Ending the Israeli occupation
At 15:27 6-3-2003 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Well, as Bush already sent 300,000 troops to the region anyway, he
might as wll put them to good use and kick Israel out of the
territories mentioned in Resolution 242. Ending the Israeli occupation
would be a good starting point for peace talks.
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff?
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 23:40:56 +0100
At 15:27 6-3-2003 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Well, as Bush already sent 300,000 troops to the
From: Jean-Louis Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Brin Book Analysis
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:21:17 -0500
At 15:54 2003-03-05 -0500, Jon wrote:
I keep forgetting to post this:
There were no
From: http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/000953.html
Excerpt:
Scientists discover new element!
[Tentatively attributed to William DeBuvitz]
The August 2000 fire at the Los Alamos Laboratory had one significant
consequence. A secret scientific document, discovered in a bunker whose
security
From the same guy who brought you the Hobbit Name Generator:
http://www.chriswetherell.com/elf/
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GSV CrossBow Arrows (Pointy Ears Class)
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William T Goodall wrote:
An old friend of mine who used to be in the merchant navy
(junior engineer on crappy oil tankers under flags of
convenience) claimed that the terrible state of his teeth
(they were crumbling - bits used to break off and he'd spit
them out) was due to drinking distilled
From: Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: If You Think A Gallon Of Gas Is Expensive.
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 18:09:32 -0600
William T Goodall wrote:
An old friend of mine who used to be in the
Jon Gabriel wrote:
From the same guy who brought you the Hobbit Name Generator:
http://www.chriswetherell.com/elf/
You can check out my favorite: the Mr. T Name Generator, here:
http://www.brunching.com/mrtname.html
:-)
-bryon
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From: Miller, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any good suggestions on specific titles? Saffron has been hogging the xBox
for the past 4 weeks playing Morrowind - 5-7 hours a DAY for the last month
-j-
Okay, I'll take the bait.
For the PS2: upon re-acquiring the console, this reviewer was lucky to
On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 12:09 am, Steve Sloan II wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
An old friend of mine who used to be in the merchant navy
(junior engineer on crappy oil tankers under flags of
convenience) claimed that the terrible state of his teeth
(they were crumbling - bits used to
From: Lalith Vipulananthan wrote:
On another note, I can say that I am no longer a Brin virgin as I read
_Kiln
People_ (that apostrophe in the UK edition is just annoying) a couple of
months ago. Ritu recommended _Earth_ as her favourite Brin book so I'm
more
likely to read that before I head
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From: Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: Question about Spoilers
Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
:) I'm currently knee-deep in the Black Company series.. pulpy,
gratuitous, but for
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From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: Water conservation
At
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2cid=564ncid=564e=12u=/nm/20
030306/ts_nm/korea_usa_troops_dc_2
There is an indication
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
There was a short-lived movement to replace the GOTO with a new statement,
COMEFROM, but for some reason it never caught on . . .
I have a copy of the COMEFROM article somewhere. If I can find it, I get
it to you. Are we allowed to send attachments on this list?
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From: Lalith Vipulananthan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:30 PM
Subject: RE: Question about Spoilers
Rob wrote:
Where is this Lal?
I'd like to brush up on my Covenant since a third trilogy might be
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo Wrote:
Spaghetti code was a very negative thing to have written on your
assignment. Heard of Lasagna Code? I'm not kidding.
George A
What was lasagna code? That's an interesting term.
It was structure code carried to an extreme. It was so filled with nested
For,
IMNSHO, the 'Earth' character Jen Wolling had it right. Read everything and
let your worldview be shaken every once in a while. So, just for the heck of
it, I thought I'd post an opposing viewpoint courtesy of Molly Ivins. :-)
As much as I personally disagree with the current French policy
George wrote:
The first Covenant trilogy in one word:Depressing.
The second trilogy in more than one word:Even more depressing.
I wouldn't deny that these books are downbeat in nature, but to sum them up
as depressing is to do them a great disservice. I liked all six books the
first
Jon Gabriel wrote:
Most citydwellers here drink bottled. Every once in a while you'll see a tv
news story about how bottled water isn't flouridated (sp?) and people should
make sure they brush their teeth consistently.
For children, you can buy fluoridated drinking water (IME, most commonly
G. D. Akin wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
There was a short-lived movement to replace the GOTO with a new statement,
COMEFROM, but for some reason it never caught on . . .
I have a copy of the COMEFROM article somewhere. If I can find it, I get
it to you. Are we allowed to send
Steve Sloan II wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
An old friend of mine who used to be in the merchant navy
(junior engineer on crappy oil tankers under flags of
convenience) claimed that the terrible state of his teeth
(they were crumbling - bits used to break off and he'd spit
them
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 17:38 6-3-2003 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
At 09:45 PM 3/6/2003 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Well, as Bush already sent 300,000 troops to the region anyway, he might as
wll put them to good use and kick Israel out of the territories mentioned
in Resolution
At 08:59 AM 3/7/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 09:26 PM 3/6/03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
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From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: Who is
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