[H-ANNOUNCE] Fw: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, July 20
David Seikel
secretary at humbug.org.au
Fri Jul 20 22:56:25 EDT 2007
This is an experiment. We have been getting these on a regular basis
for many years. As far as I am aware, no one ever bothered to forward
these to the general membership. I will start now, unless there is a
general uproar about it. B-)
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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:00:54 -0700
From: Marsee Henon
To: exec at humbug.org.au
Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, July 20
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