From owner-btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Tue Jan 7 11:37:10 2003 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id BC48D7D109 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:37:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377F77D0C7 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:37:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74497D109 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:36:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id LAA01806 for btk-mca-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:36:15 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: dlairson@dfn.com ("Monopoly Stopper") X-Newsgroups: bionet.metabolic-reg Subject: Want to see whats been upsetting The Online Monopolies Date: 7 Jan 2003 11:36:13 -0000 Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Lines: 68 Message-ID: <4118-2200312733540473@10.111.81.71> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; 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