Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Friday
From: csocolow <csocolow@microserve.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 23:46:53 -0500

From the list owners message about the LUG:

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> 
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Carl Socolow

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