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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:10:41 CDT
From:         "(David E Boyes)" <dboyes@IS.RICE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: File Forwarding to Internet Nodes
Comments: To: XMAILER%BITNIC.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu
              Sep 28, 92 4:48 pm

>    1)  80 column restriction
>        relaxed in 2.09, but still limited to 998

How about an efficient base64/CARD DUMP encoder and pacakge the
stuff as MIME octet streams? I think I could convince Richard to
expedite MIME support in RiceMAIL to do something nifty like
this, and combining CARD format and base64 encoding would handle
the module record boundary issues.

>    2)  EBCDIC to ASCII translation in gateway
>        "but it used to be a binary file"

base64 is completely printable stuff, and carries the character
set along with it. You could probably use Eric's LB64.C code as a
start, although something like this should probably be in
assembler for efficiency.

>    3)  Maximum size limitation
>        The 15M gif library.

Make it a settable parameter dependent on the amount of staging
disk available to MAILER. If you wanted the max file size to be
1.2M, give it only enough disk space to hold a 1.2M file
converted to octet strings. If you have SFS, set appropriate
quotas. The FAL SMTP server has the right idea -- set the default
value reasonably -- something like 512K -- and let individual
sites provide more resources if they feel the need.

I'd probably oppose using an application/netdata type, because
it's just too hard to handle on non-IBM hosts. The CARD format is
much better documented, and commonly available, at least on VM
systems. It'd be relatively easy to write CARD client programs
for other OS'es, rather than have to get IBM to release the NJE
spec to the world w/o licensing fees. I haven't looked at the
entrails of CARD in a while -- it used to be DISK DUMP-like. Is
there potentially any IBM code/concepts left in it?
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 17:12:37 -0400
From:         gettes@PRINCETON.EDU
Subject:      Re: Problem getting MAILER 2.09 from PUCC
              01 Oct 92 15:49:48 -0400. <9210012107.AA17847@Princeton.EDU>

On Thu, 01 Oct 92 15:49:48 -0400 sysherm@ukcc.uky.edu said:
> We sent mail to postmaster@pucc and to jwagner@princeton.edu but we've
> not gotten a reply.  Is someone at Princeton aware of the problem and
> working on it?  Is there anywere else we can get the current version?
> [We're not in a big hurry: I just wondered what's going on.]  Thanks.

Princeton is aware of it...Princeton has made John aware of it...
it's up to John to find some time to fix it. That's his baliwick!

/mrg
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:19:21 LCL
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From:         "Douglas Sargent (The Bug)" <DSARGENT@UTFSM.BITNET>
Subject:      Wildcards in Origins. in MTPLATE file

Hi all,

   I would like to place some wildcards in the origins section in the
mtplate file of Mailer. How should i do it ?

for example :

   R5ANU101
   R5ANU102
    :           Could be represented as R5ANU1* or something or other.
    :
   R5ANU199


Thanks

The Bug
From: WEAVER@OHSTVMA.BITNET (Duane D. Weaver)
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Subject: MAILLIST command
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:44:36 GMT
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I attempting to use the MAILLIST command and obtained the following
results.
maillist create dwtest weaver@ohstvma
SYNTAX error in MAILLIST line 105:  Logical value not 0 or 1
if maintainer  then  mflag = '(maintainer)'  /*                       */
   943 *-* nop
       +++ Interactive trace.  TRACE OFF to end debug, ENTER to continue. +++

   944 *-* exit exitrc
       >>>   "16"
Ready(00016); T=0.15/0.18 09:38:54


Has anyone successfully used the MAILLIST command?
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:24:40 +0200
From:         "Lawrence S. Kalman" <VSLAWR@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Subject:      Re: Change to BSMTP RCPT TO: header line

On Mon, 5 Oct 92 14:08:37 +0100 Eric Thomas said:
>
>On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:46:34 +0200 I said:
>
>>I sent a mail item to our XMailer (R2.08 PTF010) which had the following
>>BSMTP header:
>>
>>RCPT TO:</PN=Robinson_Louise/OU=GBXOM01/O=ICI C+Ts/C=GB/ADMD=TMAILUK/PRMD=ICI/
>>@sprint.com>
>
>This is not a  valid mailbox. If there is a space in  the local part, you
>have to quote.

There were quotes in the RFC822 address.  RiceMail stripped them off when
constructing the equivalent BSMTP header line.  I just reviewed RFC 821
which confirms Eric's statement.  I'll point my finger elsewhere.  Sorry to
clutter this list.

- Lawrence
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 11:15:16 CET
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From:         kuhn@ELVVS1.TUWIEN.AC.AT
Subject:      keystrokes in digitizing

for an HCI experiment (applying the keystroke level model to manual
digitizing of maps), we need to record keyboard and cursor events
on a PC 386 running autocad.

does  anybody know a utility (or hack or hardware solution with eg a blackbox)
to do this? note that we need single key events rather than autocad commands.

any pointers would be appreciated.
please reply directly to

werner kuhn
kuhn@elvvs1.tuwien.ac.at
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From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
Subject: GIS--RAID Systems for LANs, IBM, Workstations, VAX, etc.?
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 02 Oct 92 17:18:03 EST

Would anyone have any advice or recommendations regarding RAID,
including this RAID 7, for GIS applications?  (Wang has a a number
of GIS solutions available.)

Regarding John Scoggin's request for information on RAID systems for
VINES, Storage Computer of Nashua, N.H. is currently showing its new high
performance RAID 7 disk array platforms at the September Banyan Users
Meeting.  They work equally well with NetWare, IBM systems and the VAX.

Standards-based, RAID 7 is designed for enterprise-wide computing and
overcomes performance limitations of earlier RAID architectures, providing
a  "real world sustained application performance improvement of 200% to
400%" and dropping the cost of storage to 16 cents/MB.  Their brochures
say they can "mix and match" up to 48 SCSI commodity (3.5 or 5.25 inch)
drives, up to 150 GB.  The RAID 7 disk array platforms come with an embedded
operating system and up to 12 SCSI-2 based host interfaces.  Besides servers,
Storage Computer's RAID 7 disk array platforms can connect to workstations
and midrange systems in addition to IBM's.  Multiple CPUs can be attached to
same disk array platform.

The RAID 7 platforms come with up to 256 MB of cache, eliminating any
reason for using performance-damaging CPU main memory disk RAM.

The drives are "hot plugable" for uninterrupted, transparent operation,
with a hot standby drive automatically replacing a failed drive.

There was a lot of activity yesterday at the Storage Computer RAID 7 booth
at the Banyan show as I walked by.  They were demoing what happens if a
drive goes down, showing the backup drive taking over.

For further information on Storage Computer's RAID 7 for the VAX, their
key contact is indicated to be John O'Brien, Director of Technical Services,
at Tel. 603-880-3005 or FAX 603-889-7232.

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
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From:         Salvatore.Pulvirenti@BERLIOZ.CRS4.IT
Subject: Re: GIS--RAID Systems for LANs, IBM, Workstations, VAX, etc.?

Hi,
I'd  like to have some information about  RAID 7 running  in a IBM environment.

Thanks in advance.

Salvatore  Pulvirenti
CRS4 - ITALY
pulvi@crs4.it
+39-70-240971
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 92 07:59:22 -0500
From:         Kenneth Salzberg <ksalzber@HAMLINE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Outlines and Johnny Appleseed.....
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A vague memory to suggest a possible explanation for Mervyn's "moving lockup-
snarlup" - I too use the outlining feature for writing lecture notes, and
found, quite some time ago (so haven't dealt with this lately), that if I
tried to write the whole semester's notes in one file, and did some re-numberiin
 the file, bad things began to happen.
Once I put each chapter in its own file, with the outline deltas at the
beginning of each file (after the new page number, pt and running footer
deltas), all was well.
This may have absolutely nothing to do with your problem, but it's the only
one I've had with outlining.
--Ken Salzberg
ksalzber@hamline.edu
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 92 21:56:55 EDT
From:         "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: NB4 Memory Requirements (was: NB4 + Orbis + Ibid)
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Tom Schlesinger writes:

> As soon as I saw this, I tried it.  It worked without problems (on NB4. Beta)
> though I can't say, of course, that I've tried every possible Lingua routine.
> I did a MEM /C in DOS and found that even slightly more than the 11K noted
> above was shown as an NB item of some sort in upper memory.  I've changed the
> batch file I use to load NB 4.0, and have re-loaded it several times since I
> did that.

I, too, immediately tried the LH command with NB4.  Examination with
several memory mapping utilities revealed that NB.COM was indeed
loaded into UMBs, and NBEDIT was loaded into conventional memory.
This yields a net gain in memory of slightly over 11K, which is not to
be sneezed at.  Like Tom and James, I have not yet experienced any
problems with this practice, although my NB4 is only a late beta, and
I repeat my request for reports from others trying the same thing.

And I'm *still* excited about it!

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Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 92 10:37:13 EDT
From:         "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: NB 4.0 /NBLINGUA memory management with LOADHIGH
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Itamar Even-Zohar writes:

> Re: Nota Bene 4.0 (NBLINGUA) memory management
> ...
> This large discrepancy (at least 33K) is perhaps caused by
> NBLINGUA failure to use the extra memory gained by using
> UMB_DRVR.SYS (706752 / 690.2K instead of 640K) instead of EMM386
> as UMB manager. If this is true (Paul Bodin can perhaps check
> this with NBI people), it is strange in view of the fact that
> Nota Bene 3.1 _does_ recognize this extra memory (I normally get
> some 387K free with Nota Bene 3.1 loaded).

Itamar, I *always* get more memory reported available when I shell
directly to DOS than NB reports before I shell out.  I have always
assumed (without any "inside" information) that this is caused by NB
freeing some memory before shelling, perhaps by swapping some overlays
to disk.  Has your experience been otherwise?

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Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 92 08:49:29 GMT
From:         Lee Komito <LKOMITO@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
Subject:      NB4 and outlining
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Sounds, from the responses, as though this is more a case of me not
looking into NB3's outlining facilities before. I used to think
it was a pain to have to re-invoke the outline phrase settings
before using the outline -- now, as far as I can tell, one just
has to be in an outline, and one can use the settings (this is based
on five minutes use; experience might prove me hopelessly wrong).
Further, I suppose I find using carriage return for a new outline
setting, and then just "-" or "=" to move up or down a level
more intuitive that trying to remember which number to invoke
for whatever level I was at. As I say, perhaps this was all in
NB3, and I have only come across it in experimenting with NB4.


Lee Komito                       Internet: lkomito@irlearn.ucd.ie
Dept of Sociology                CREN/Bitnet/Earn: lkomito@irlearn
University College, Dublin       phone: +353 1 706-7106
Belfield, Dublin 4; Ireland      Fax: +353 1 269-4409
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 92 12:15:03 EST
From:         "Gerald W. Schlabach" <GSCHLABA@IRISHVMA>
Subject:      NB4 Memory Requirements (was: NB4 + Orbis + Ibid)
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On Wed, 30 Sep 92 09:40:52 PDT Janice Tanche said:
>BTW, can anyone tell me how much memory NB4+Orbis+Ibid requires
>to run?

I second that request.  I have been wondering if I am going to have to spend
money I do not have to upgrade my XT clone.  So let me rephrase or expand the
question a bit:  Say I'm writing a 35 page paper, regularly evoking IBID
to write my footnotes, going to ORBIS for notes and collecting them into
another window or two or three.  I can wait till later to do a spell check.
I use SHROOM to shell out to DOS for other things and can live with the 5-
second writing-to-disk time so that I have 580 K of memory outside of NB.
And I can also live with the NB memory-to-disk swapping.  Will it all work
at once?  That is the point of using NB as a research "works station."  But
in 3.1 one starts to hit one's head against the memory ceiling (say, when
you tap F7 and see that you only have 4 K, and NB won't even do a disk
write so you can invoke TB or shell out to DOS).  Will 4.0 be even tighter?

I.e. is a 386 my fate, along with a spouse who scowls at me when she balances
the checkbook?

Gerald W. Schlabach           |     Item bellum nullum argumentum est
University of Notre Dame      |     pro veritate fidei Christianae.
Schlabach.1@nd.edu            |          --Francisco de Vitoria, 1539
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 92 18:40:36 -0400
From:         Tirzah Meacham <meacham@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: NB4 installation
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              Sep 30, 92 9:54 am

After all this waiting, it would seem the people on this list are not
thrilled with NB4. Perhaps thats because they mastered NB3. besides
lingua laser printing is there anything Nb4 does which Nb3 did not.
And is Nb4 pull down menus that superior to Nb3 style?--  meantime we
in canada are still looking for-ward to nb 4-play.

Herb Basser
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Well, Jim O'Donnell has stated the "unstatable." I am also "trying" to
quit NB, but keep cussing at WordPerfect 5.1.  Don't they know anything
about cursor keys? About moving text?  I'm hoping Signature or MS Word
will provide a solution.

I've also thought of leaving this listserv, but since it is the most
enjoyable and informative one around, I prefer to remain on it.  Ever tried
the WP listserv? All questions that can easily be found in the manual.

But I tend to believe that NBI is soon to go the way of the Osborne.

Bob Strauss
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 92 14:32:00 +0200
From:         Michael Shalev <SHALEV@HUJIVMS>
Subject:      File choppers
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Checked the SIMTEL holdings. These utilities are to be found
in msdos.filutl (NOT filutil as reported earlier).
It contains CHOP31.ZIP, also CHOP1191.ZIP (more recent), and several
others. The Ascii file 00-index.txt has an annotated listing.
..Michael
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 92 13:52:00 GMT
From:         JAE2@VAXB.YORK.AC.UK
Subject:      RE: installing 4.0
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Move to a drive and type install, then you'll be guided through the
procedure.
(I seem to remember having documentation to this effect - though not
saying much more than that.)
You'll end up 'inside' NB: press F1, customize via Set.
There are various experienced installers out here on the list - I've
reinstalled and customized a lot... - get back if you get stuck

Judy Evans  Politics  York  England
jae2@uk.ac.york
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 92 10:27:16 EST
From:         Dorothy Day <DAY@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: TMP files in NB4

Neil Brooks reports:

>robert kelly F writes:-
>>
>> One thing I noticed in your first posting was that you referred to a master
>> template file which you called NBBIB.TMP.  Is it not the case that any file
>> named xxxx.TMP is a temporary file (e.g. PRINT.TMP) not a template file?
>
>This reminds me to alert NB4 users to a potential disaster.
>For some stupid reason, NB4 uses .TMP file name extension for Template files
>which are used to record things like names of recently used textfiles,
>and other things.

>If you are in the (good) habit of regularly deleting temporary files from
>anywhere on your harddisk with some variation of DEL *.TMP in all sub-
>directories, watchout!
============================

The only files that I'm aware of using the .TMP extension are
NBCUSTOM.TMP and NBSTATUS.TMP, both truly temporary storage files for
information about latest settings. Their loss would not be a disaster
(you can simply make the changes permanent in your NBCUSTOM.SET file),
but it could be an inconvenience.

Both files are maintained in the \NB4 directory.
If you set a different directory for your overflow files, you can
safely delete any .TMP files there, without affecting the two .TMP
files in the \NB4 directory. Not a perfect solution for diskwide
cleanup routines, but perhaps you can incorporate an exclusion for
the directory or even just the two named files.

Dorothy Day, Indiana University
Bitnet: DAY@IUBACS
Internet: day@ucs.indiana.edu
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 92 16:02:07 EDT
From:         Austin Kerr <akerr@MAGNUS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
Subject:      NB I schedule
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A call to the area code 212 number on Monday afternoon EDT obtained a recording
that NBI was completing shipments of NB 4 upgrades by Wednesday of this week.
new Phone lines were promised by Thursday, making it easier for us to get
through
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 92 16:28:18 IST
From:         "Itamar Even-Zohar, Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM>
Subject:      Re: Arabic on NB
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On Sun, 4 Oct 92 16:14:30 IST Lew Golan said:
>
>Is anyone using Arabic on NB -- preferably the Israeli version (Shapirit)?
>
>Lew Golan, Tel-Aviv University <lew@vm.tau.ac.il>

No Arabic is yet available for NB.

Itamar E-Z

(I started customization a few years ago for Gutman's
superb Arabic laser fonts, but have lost patience...
I now believe that NBI has got the clue for it, but
will they do it? I wish they fixed all bugs in NBLINGUA
asap before they do that.)
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 92 14:36:44 EDT
From:         robert kelly F <rkelly3@MACH1.WLU.CA>
Subject:      Re: NB4 Memory Requirements
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The idea of loading NB.COM high for NB 4 is most interesting.  What about NB
3?  Does it work the same way?  Could I do "lh nb" with 3.1 and save 11K?

--
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 92 22:51:55 IST
From:         PARKINSN@MCMASTER
Subject:      Re: caution refilling DeskJet
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I always remove the cartridge from the printer before filling because
of this problem.  After refilling once or twice the sponge (or whatever)
inside takes longer to absorb the refill ink.  I usually only fill it
about half up before it starts dripping onto the paper I've placed
underneath.  At this point, I take the cartridge and wipe the printhead
onto the paper using the excess ink to clean up the head which gets
quite full of semi-dried ink over several refills.  This is something
the instructions tell you _never_ to do, but I have found that it
really improves the print quality.
Ted Parkinson
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
p.s. when precautions are taken I think re-filling is quite safe.  The
cartridge has never leaked _after_ my little ritual.
From: ILX3ARO@UCLAMVS (Shirley Arora)
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Subject: NB4 installation
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:54:00 GMT
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   My thanks to all who responded to my call for help in installing our
departmental NB4.  Although we have not yet managed to get it into the
particular machine we were working on, we did get it installed in another one.
It appears that some program in the original machine may be responsible for
our difficulty.  We're still trying.  In any case, it was a great introduction
to the NOTABENE list, which I had joined just shortly before the Department
received its NB4.  (I still haven't received mine, but after this experience
I'm not as impatient as I was; I can't help wondering what problems lurk over
the horizon.)
Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 92 11:09:46 EDT
From:         "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: NB4 Memory Requirements (was: NB4 + Orbis + Ibid)
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In response to Michael Dick's complaint about memory management, I
must point out that DOS is tied to the segmented memory model imposed
by early versions, and will never grow out of it.  Any version of DOS
that did away with this feature would immediately become incompatible
with every DOS application now available.  Memory segmentation is
integral to every DOS program now in existence, and it is the source
of the "640K barrier".

Of course there *is* a successor to DOS that can address a flat memory
area of >4 gigabytes--OS/2.  Unix in its various incarnations will do
the same.  Unfortunately in order to run DOS applications both of
these operating systems must mimic DOS and its arcane memory
segmentation scheme by creating a virtual real mode machine.  We will
only escape the real mode box when native applications for the new
operating systems are written that do what we need done.  In the
meantime those of us tied to real mode applications like Notabene will
continue to tweak away for every bit of memory we can scrounge...

___________________________________________________________________________
Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
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