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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Markus<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>- you said </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#333333">Tue Jan 26, 2021 9:01 pm</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">:
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"By the way: you might find this thread from 1996 (!) amusing since it already goes through basically all the motions of the last pages on here ;-)<br>
<a href="https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/1996-September/138260.html"><span style="color:#368AD2">https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-d ... 38260.html</span></a><o:p> "</o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Thanks for digging this up.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Actually the 1996 issues (pirated EBG&PCC) and the more recent matters of the last few years seem unrelated to me.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">As I recall I collected something like 22
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>$15-fees for the illegal copies.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Each person sending in the $15 received an (obviously unannounced) new original printing of the EBG&PCC free (a $25 value) as reward for honesty.
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">I suspect that these 22 were a significant majority of those on the postal mailing chains who actually made copies; as some names apparently found it most convenient
to just keep the “originals” they were mailed, sending nothing forward, breaking the chain and causing spurious and damaging
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(to us) “still waiting for Electronotes” postings.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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</span>- Bernie<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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