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- From: sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller)
- Subject: Re: Mercury fillings
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.204738.9931@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov7.125214.2187@cnsvax.uwec.edu> <1992Nov9.032517.7728@netcom.com> <17481@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:47:38 GMT
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- In article <17481@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov9.032517.7728@netcom.com> sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov7.125214.2187@cnsvax.uwec.edu> nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) writes:
- >>>In article <1dgrnoINNa3a@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, starfish@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Smarter than the Average Blur) writes:
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- >>>> Are they still used and if not, when did they stop being used?
- >>>Don't worry. The mercury is not bioavailable. There is absolutely
- >>>no evidence of any medical problems from it. The allegations of
- >>>MS-like symptoms from it were crazy.
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- >>The original poster asked a yes or no question, and then asked for
- >>a date. You have not answered either question, and have then gone
- >>on to answer question(s) that were not asked. You guessed the poster
- >>had a fairly specific but unstated underlying motivation for asking
- >>about mercury fillings. And you may very well be correct. But why not
- >>give people the benefit of the doubt and just answer questions as they
- >>are asked, and then answer more questions as the 'conversation'
- >>progresses? Suppose the poster had completely different reasons
- >>for asking about mercury fillings?
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- >Since when it is your prerogative to specify how people can post
- >or answer questions? Dave can post whatever he likes and give
- >whatever information he likes. If you want to answer the question,
- >just go ahead and do so. I answered it anyhow.
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- You're giving the impression that you don't read very well. I
- didn't specify anything. I asked a favor, and it certainly
- wasn't an unreasonable one.
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- I also don't quite understand why you think that I should
- believe that "Dave can post what he likes" but that I can't.
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- If you've got one of those versions of rn that require more lines
- of followup than quoted text, you needn't send blank lines in order to
- defeat it. Hint: the filter counts lines that begin with
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