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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Randy Bush <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randy@psg.com" target="_blank">randy@psg.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">David Farmer wrote:<br>
> +1 to every thing Sylvain said, and -1 to proposal.<br>
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</div>does the university of minnesota operate in the ripe region, or just<br>
have global opinions on how everybody else should operate?<br>
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randy<br>
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