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From: guay@fraser.sfu.ca (Tim Guay)
Subject: Re: Stop it! (was Re: Nice combos with cat claws (or other combos))
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:43:37 GMT

In article <Bw6305.8q0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@yankton.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
>
>Yes, we do have here at IU hapkido, judo, t'ai chi, kendo, tae kwon do, aikido,
>and other stuff.  I'm just hesitant on going for a university class, as opposed
>to a commercial thing.  Are the school's classes very good?
>
School classes are no better or worse than commercial classes and are often
taught by moonlighting commercial instructors. You can always sit in and talk
to the students.

REMEMBER! Just because a school is commercial does not mean its automatically
good! Commercial schools range from pathetic to excellent. University and 
Rec Centre classes run from pathetic to excellent. 

Commercial instructors have also been known to teach university and rec centre
beginner courses in order to recruit students for their commercial schools.

ALSO! Even mediocre training is better than no training. And certainly arts
such as hapkido, aikido, jujitsu, and judo are very, very difficult to learn
without a partner. 

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From: guay@fraser.sfu.ca (Tim Guay)
Subject: the FAQ
Summary: Where can I find the FAQ?
Keywords: FAQ
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:43:42 GMT

Some poster a few dozen messages ago mentioned this group's FAQ. Where
can I locate said beast?

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From: poore@ds13.scri.fsu.edu (David Poore)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Taido/Hakamas (hopping)
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:16:41 GMT
Reply-To: poore@ds13.scri.fsu.edu (David Poore)
Organization: Florida State University

In article <1b1n4cINNrf@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> acharya@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:
>leiwo@phoenix (Jussi Leiwo) says:
>like volts and that kind of things. Actually this class of teqhnicues (how 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	volts, eh? sounds electrifying. so tell me, are these classes paid
>	in cash, or do you CHARGE them?

I didn't have much interest in this at first, Mukund, but I gotta give
you credit for that one.

David Poore
poore@ds.13.scri.fsu.edu
From: robinson@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Kimwaza - Black Dragon Kung Fu
Date: 13 Oct 1992 21:57:12 GMT
Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, U.C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: cogsci.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Oct13.112654.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> mautzcl@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>Panther Productions Training Videos
>Black Dragon
>
>Chinese Goju by 10th Dan Master Ron Van Clief.  Learn Master Van
>Clief's Chinese Goju System with these great tapes:

Gosh.  And all this time I though Chinese martial arts didn't have Dan
rankings.

Maybe I should read Black Belt more often.  You never know what you might 
learn...


>3.  Black Dragon "Up-Close," Ron Van Clief Interview & Movie
>    Fight Choreography

Destined to become a classic, no doubt.



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From: byoung@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Brian P Young)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Usability of shuko and sai (was Re: cat claws / shuko)
Date: 16 Oct 1992 22:38:11 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <Bw8By1.GrG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
>In article <61206@mimsy.umd.edu> tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!)) writes:
>>     However, let's remember that most MA weapons were simple
>>household items that crafty MAists used as weapons. The jo (short
>>stick) was a walking cane, sai were either ladies' hairpins or
>>seed-hole-punchers for planting, nunchucku were used for threshing
>>grain (like the European flail).
Agree
>True!  And most samurai weapons originated from farming tools, as well.  The
>kusari-gama is one example. (if I recall correctly)

Disagree, I may be wrong, but I have a hard time imagining how a katana,
naginata, yari or bow would have been adapted from a farm tool.
The samurai had all the money, therefor they didn't need to adopt things
for weapons.  They, mostly only they, could afford to have arms made.

>-- 
>Sam Hulick          | "A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one
>shulick@indiana.edu | end and no responsibility at the other."  --Anon.
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-Brian Young
From: pw2j+@andrew.cmu.edu (Peter Jason Ward)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Chinese myths
Date: 17 Oct 92 03:04:32 GMT
	<8348@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> <1992Oct14.030429.15238@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
	<MARY.92Oct14134902@martinique.Cayman.COM>
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

A Kung-fu comic book from Hong Kong called "Iron Marshal" has a
storyline in which the characters search for the Unicorn, which is a
huge and infinitely powerful creature that looks like it has;  the
hindquarters of a horse, the head and torso of a lion, and covered in
scales.   I'm pretty sure that's the actual description of the mythical,
Oriental Unicorn.
                                                           Peter Ward
From: lawrence@ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: YOU SHOULD TRY LLAP-Goch!
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:17:34 GMT
Reply-To: lawrence@olympus.ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence)
Distribution: rec.martial-arts
Organization: Cabletron Systems INc.

All you sissies are wasting your time with all those Oriental martial
arts, especially when I can teach you *LLAP-Goch: The Welsh Art of 
Self Defense!!!*

What is LLAP-Goch, you ask? It is simply the most deadly form of secret
self-defense that has ever been devised anywhere in the world.

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harm, decapitate, dismember, disembowel, cripple and snap any opponent.

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women will beg to sleep with you.

All you need to do to learn the invaluable, time-honored hidden
secrets of LLAP-Goch is mail me that check for $129.95 you're
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Send immediately, or I'll demonstrate!

					Master Miles Kissle
					45th Dan, LLAP-Goch
					(no kidding, I can really beat
						the snot out of you!)
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From: khc2674@rigel.tamu.edu (Bruce as my Shepherd)
Subject: Re: Kimwaza - Black Dragon Kung Fu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:44:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.112654.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>, mautzcl@ducvax.auburn.edu writes...
>Chinese Goju by 10th Dan Master Ron Van Clief.  Learn Master Van
>Clief's Chinese Goju System with these great tapes:
> 
>1.  Way Of The Black Dragon
> 
>2.  Chinese Goju Fundamentals & Self Defense
> 
>3.  Black Dragon "Up-Close," Ron Van Clief Interview & Movie
>    Fight Choreography

 	Ron Van Clief is an African-American.

	Hence, Black Dragon.

	He learned Goju Ryu from some legitimate instructor, added bits and
pieces of various Chinese arts. Here you have "Black Dragon Kung Fu"


Kuo Hau Chang  :)               Praying for Mantis                (:
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From: mary@Cayman.COM (Mary Malmros)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Karate style in 'Karate Kid' movie trilogy?
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:47:01 GMT
	<POPOVICH.92Oct12031028@morningside.cs.columbia.edu>
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: popovich@cs.columbia.edu's message of 12 Oct 92 08:10:28 GMT


In article <POPOVICH.92Oct12031028@morningside.cs.columbia.edu> popovich@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Popovich) writes:

   >	Can anyone tell me what style of karate Miyagi teaches Larusso in 
   >the karate kid movies? I happen to watch part of 'Karate Kid III' the other

   I think it's called "movie-do" :-).  If anybody knows about an actual
   style with any substantial resemblance to the stuff in the Karate Kid
   movies, I'd like to hear about it, too.  I always wondered if maybe
   the makers of these movies intended for the Karate to be Goju-like,
   because they named their "sensei" Miyagi :-).  Of course, what they
   intended and what actually happened may very well be two completely
   different things.
	   -Steve

I heard from somewhere that the fight trainers for the first movie were
TKDists, but don't quote me on that.  Don't know about II or III.
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From: mautzcl@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Kimwaza - Black Dragon Kung Fu
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:26:54 GMT


I don't know if this will help, but I recently came across some info
relating to the white dragon/black dragon kung-fu debate.  This may
be irrelevant, but here goes:

November 1992 issue of Black Belt Magazine:

Panther Productions Training Videos

Black Dragon

Chinese Goju by 10th Dan Master Ron Van Clief.  Learn Master Van
Clief's Chinese Goju System with these great tapes:

1.  Way Of The Black Dragon

2.  Chinese Goju Fundamentals & Self Defense

3.  Black Dragon "Up-Close," Ron Van Clief Interview & Movie
    Fight Choreography


again, this is out of the magazine, and being from Iceland, I don't know
if you can get this magazine, but this is the closest thing I've ever seen
in regard to Black Dragon Kung-Fu.

p.s. - No mention of Kimwaza (sp?), so I don't know if this applies...


hope this helps...

chip

Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
From: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans)
Subject: yet another style of karate
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:38:44 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

I recently ran across a group of people claiming to study
"eugue-ryu" karate.  Has anyine else heard of it?  I am certain
that it must be a made-in-America style, as I was told by one its practioners
that "yes, 5th degree means you're a master".

Charles Yeomans
cyeomans@ms.uky.edu
yeomans@austin.onu.edu

Xref: sparky rec.martial-arts:13269 rec.arts.tv:19844
From: doug@eng.umd.edu (Douglas N. Cohen)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Kung Fu TV series
Summary: -=-=-=-< humor >-=-=-=-
Keywords: -=-=-=-< humor >-=-=-=-
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:11:57 GMT
Followup-To: ddukhovn@nyx.cs.du.edu
Organization: hah!  we don't need no steenkin' organization!
Cc: ddukhovn@nyx.cs.du.edu
Bcc: ddukhovn@nyx.cs.du.edu


In article <1992Oct8.222748.24012@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ddukhovn@nyx.cs.du.edu (The Great Harlequin) writes:

>Actually, what I found attractive about the film was that it had GREAT acting
>for a martial arts film (although you ARE right...there isn't any Van Damme- 
>ism in it.  I thought that it was tastefully done, had a good, solid plot, a
>useful theme, and great camera work without and stupid special effects.
>
>Furthermore, I would rank it higher than Karate Kid, Iron & Silk, and almost all
>of the others!  Enter the Dragon was a little better, but Bruce Lee was in it
>(and that's an unfair advantange for any movie to have).
>

	bwaaahhhhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaawwww!!!!!

	.......

	bwaaahhhhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaawwww!!!!!

>
>Respectfully yours,
>The Harlequin
>


	another opinion, worth what you paid for it!
	and, as always, i am/at:

	     doug:  <doug@eng.umd.edu> : <doug@lpf.umd.edu>

	-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-< a ghost in the machine >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

	"presidential elections are planned distractions
	 to divert attention from the actions behind the scenes....
	 like a game of chess when the house is a mess, or
	 a petty money squabble when your marriage is in trouble,
	 or a football game when there's rioting in the street!

	 it's just another movie.....  another song and dance.....
	 another poor sucker who never had a chance!
	 it's just another captain goin' down with his ship.....
	 it's just another jerk, taking pride in his work!

				       greetings from timbuck three!
From: naam@cecer.army.mil (Ramez Naam)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Karate style in 'Karate Kid' movie trilogy?
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:32:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: lorax.naam.719170355
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs

I feel that I should point out that the founder of Goju ryu was
Chojin Miagi (sp?).   I think the movies clearly wanted to give us
the impression that the style being practiced was Goju (which it was
damn close to.)
From: gints@prophet.esd.sgi.com (Gints Klimanis)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: redneck wearing a John-Deere hat
Date: 13 Oct 92 08:28:08 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <3932@unisql.UUCP>, wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie) writes:
|> In article <Bw0MH2.F7F@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
|> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
|> >Chances are, a loud, obnoxious, aggressive redneck wearing a
|> John-Deere hat
|> >isn't going to know martial arts.
|> 
|> 	That's what _you_ think, bud.

That's right.  One MOST KEY thing I've learned from my Kenpo (non-Ed
Parker style) class is never to judge fighting skill by appearance. 
Man, I would never have guessed that loud, obnoxious, aggressive
rednecks, a pudgy black kid, stereotype yuppies, a munchkin school
teacher, a 60 year old geezer, beer belly fireman are exceptional
fighters.  My master is 56, all smiles and jokes and UNBELIEVABLE. 

Mess with know one.  They'll kick your butt.  The best attack is a
surprise attack.  The best block is not being there.
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From: mary@Cayman.COM (Mary Malmros)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Radio Communications in the DOJO
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:13:31 GMT
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: tmr@wdl1.wdl.loral.com's message of 9 Oct 92 16:26:43 GMT


In article <1992Oct9.162643.23455@wdl.loral.com> tmr@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Tim Ryan) writes:

   Does anybody elses, studio have radio communications in there Dojos?

No...and our school's a lot bigger than yours, sounds like.

Did you ever find out WHY they were doing it????

How bizarre.
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From: twh73@isuvax.iastate.edu
Subject: Under Siege
Reply-To: twh73@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 22:19:44 GMT

Has anyone seen Seagal's new movie Under Siege?  IMHO t is the best one 
he has done.  He doesn't end up taking out everyone by himself, someone else
actually does some killing.  It seemed like they tried to lighten up his
character a little bit.


stiletto
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
From: RR.MED@forsythe.stanford.edu (Jeff Reichard)
Subject: What should I carry?
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:51:26 GMT


Hi all,

I am a martial arts neophyte who has been reading this group for the
last month or so. During that time, I've seen one long thread (and
another just began) about what sorts of weapons are most
effective/legal/user-friendly. In all these discussions, I've
seen no one suggest carrying Mace or Pepper Capsicum spray for
self-defense. Is there a reason for this? Mace seems like an ideal
weapon to me for several reasons:

     -It's legal everywhere in the U.S. except Wisconsin, as far as
     I know. Here in California people have to get a license to
     carry Mace, but this is fairly easy and cheap to do.

     -It's compact, unobtrusive, and not obviously a weapon

     -It does no permanent damage to the person on the business end

     -It _seems_ as easy to use as a can of RAID.

     -Best of all, there is absolutely no mystique attached to
carrying Mace. No one proves that they're deadly by pulling a
petite aerosol and squirting Bluto in the face. They just defend
themselves by this way.  This is not the case
with guns, knives, or MA weapons.  Maybe this is why Mace
is viewed as a defensive weapon and allowed by the law. It's a
big advantage in my book.

My only concern would be that Mace didn't work. I've never been
maced, but I have been teargassed at a demonstration :-). Tear gas
works. If Mace is anything like as effective, it would at least give
you time to escape or pick up a pool-cue, and would probably put an
attacker down for a while. Any thoughts?

Jeff R.

--standard disclaimers apply
From: mary@Cayman.COM (Mary Malmros)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Kung Fu Masters
Date: 15 Oct 92 02:03:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: martiniq.MARY.92Oct14220351
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: smith@cs.tulane.edu's message of 14 Oct 92 21:41:28 GMT


In article <1992Oct14.214128.10446@cs.tulane.edu> smith@cs.tulane.edu (Lon Smith) writes:

   Ha all, 

   First a little background, in the late 1940's four promanent master 
   flead China and went to Korea. 

Out of curiosity, why on earth did they flee China for Korea at that 
particular point in history?  From what I've heard, at that point most
migration was in the other direction (i.e., away from the Japanese, who
had very much indeed occupied Korea, and into China, where they were 
more thinly spread).

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From: drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury)
Subject: Re: Nike Style Tai Chi?
Organization: National Institutes of Health
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 04:06:15 GMT

In article poore@ds13.scri.fsu.edu (David Poore) writes:
>In article drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury) writes:
>>In article jwalters@stsci.edu writes:
>>>In article schan@birch.srg.af.mil (Stephen Chan x4485) writes:
>>>> 	Dave, you're just so knave.
>>>Uh, I think you meant naive.
>>Nah, he's just being rediculous.  [What *is* that tapping sound.]
>So, Stephen, how's the fishing these days? 

No, no, not the fish again!
--
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drury@helix.nih.gov
From: aaron@cse.ucsc.edu (Aaron Emigh)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Stop it! (was Re: Nice combos with cat claws (or other combos))
Date: 15 Oct 1992 23:04:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak.ucsc.edu

In article <Bw5AEI.Hq0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> you write:
>In article <1bi6h0INN5p4@agate.berkeley.edu> robinson@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson) writes:
>>In article <BvzJu6.IKr@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>>>Are there any good books that explain and depict good combinations using cat
>>>claws or sai?  I'd really appreciate it.  My cat claws are coming in the mail
>>>in a couple weeks, and I've already made up a few of my own combos which I
>>>think are excellent to use against non-MA's.
>>
>>Great.  Just what the martial arts community needs:  some sub-white belt buys
>>an esoteric weapon mail order...
[...]
>It's self-defense, and I hate guns.  

These seem to me to be a very poor choice for self-defense.  First,
using them would land you in a lot of trouble.  Second, if you get
attacked by someone, it's unlikely that you'd have the time to go
putting on your elaborate American Ninja (tm) equipment.  Third,
introducing weapons into a confrontation is a drastic escalation, and I
wouldn't recommend it unless it were absolutely necessary and you truly
had the necessary skills.

[...]
>I've been
>tossed around by these people, and after they leave, I just fume because I
>couldn't defend myself.  And no, I don't think the shuko are going to help
>that...

Be clear here: are these for self-defense or not?  If you don't think
they're going to help you with self-defense (I agree: they won't), then
why did you say earlier that they're for self-defense?

[...]
>I never
>attack, and if I am BEING attacked by someone, I want to be able to not back
>down and to actually stand up.  (I guess you can say being pushed around since
>kindergarten may have pissed me off)  :)  Maybe martial arts isn't the answer
>to my inability to stand up & defend myself.. I don't know, but I wish I could
>do something about it..

Then they _are_ for self-defense after all.  As I mentioned above, I
think this is a very poor idea.

IMHO, a little self-confidence will help you a lot more than any number
of exotic weapons that you don't really know how to use.  Martial arts
training doesn't have to be expensive.  Look around and you might find
something you could really gain from.

>Sam Hulick          | "A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one
>shulick@indiana.edu | end and no responsibility at the other."  --Anon.
>(NeXTmail welcome)  |

Aaron Emigh
aaron@iit.com
aaron@cse.ucsc.edu
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Nike Style Tai Chi?
Date: 7 Oct 1992 16:55:51 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Distribution: na
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

juola@bruno.cs.colorado.edu (Patrick Juola) writes:
  
  +That's okay, the "official" Hepburn transliteration system for Japanese
  +doesn't use Q's anyway.  The transliteration is "ki".

Are a few people missing something here?  Lord only knows...
 
  +Which is all irrelevant, since Tai Chi is a Chinese art, and Chinese
  +has more transliteration systems than I care to count.  What is
  +the name of the capital, anyway?  Peking, Peiping, or Beijing?

Yes.

Terry 
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From: schan@birch.srg.af.mil (Stephen Chan x4485)
Subject: Re: Nice combos with cat claws (or other combos)
Organization: SRG, Arinc Research Corp., Annapolis, MD
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 14:35:05 GMT

In article <BvzJu6.IKr@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>Also, another question.  Can non-MA's learn the art pretty well?  For example,
>I've not taken any martial art, but I develop my own techniques.  Can this be
>fairly effective?

	Depends on what "effective" is - if you want to bring the excitement of
Black Belt theater into your very own living room, then sure thing, it'll be
very effective.

>I just can't afford to take hapkido lessons, so are there any books that teach
>it pretty well?  Or are there good self-defense books out there which a person
>can learn from? I  know the absence of an instructor isn't great, but I can't
>afford it.  Thanks for any info.

	Hey, there are quite a few instructors out there who offer to teach
something which they learned out of a book. You're just cutting out the
middleman!
--
	Stephen Chan
	uunet!srg!schan or uunet!srg!schan@uunet.uu.net
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