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From: Venkat <0002_eveev@oohay.moc>
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on 10/10/2003 6:17 PM Mark Townsend said the following:

> Venkat wrote:
>
>> on 10/10/2003 8:10 AM Mark Townsend said the following:
>>
> Thanks for the verification :-)
>
> And to avoid any suggestion of any masked man Oracle tag team double 
> teaming going on, who exactly are you ?

I am part of the Server Technologies team at Oracle. Incidentally, I 
work in the same floor as you do :-D

-V