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- From: cstadgs@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R J Tinsley)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: seperate hot and cold water taps in th
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:35:23 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- References: <rdavis.728009672@connie.de.convex.com> <1k3ce7INN43a@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <1993Jan26.172500.2923@adobe.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.172500.2923@adobe.com> cjackson@adobe.com
- (Curtis Jackson) writes:
- >This is true, if you make the quaint UK-centric assumption that the rest
- >of the civilised world is still plumbing with lead rather than copper.
-
- geoff@tyger.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
- writes:
- >A report issued [in the US] a couple of weeks ago points out that the alloys
- >used to fabricate taps contain a fairly high proportion of lead.
-
- Need I say more? :-)
-
- -Bob
-
- Just my `hundreds if not thousands of dollars' worth
-