Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 17:23:06 +0100
From: "[iso-8859-1] Bj=F8rn Magnhild=F8en" <magh@chello.no>
To: e-kunst@kunst.no
Subject: Re: 12 minutes of "conquests" Rethinking Wargames | e


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