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//www.freelists.org/list/urisa I just went and set my delivery method to 'digest' mode :) Thomas Herschbach, PLS, GISP Professional Land Surveyor Geographic Information Systems Professional tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On 4/23/2012 11:17 AM, Wendy Nelson wrote:
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