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From: mansell upham <>
Subject: Eva Meerhoff
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 08:42:40 +0000

Response to Andre van Rensburg:

> Subject: Re: Eva - Krotoa
> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 10:07:14 +1100
> From: van Rensburg <>
> To:

> I do not think we do justice to Eva to try and say she was just doing
> what everyone else was doing.

Nowhere has this been argued or implied...maybe she was doing some things that everyone
was doing at the time - not "JUST [capital letter for emphasis are my doing] doing...."
We know that Eva was doing a lot more than most of her contemporaries - and not all bad
either....au contraire....

> That is a cop out. And not looking at the
> facts.

The biggest cop out of all is NOT looking at the facts...

> Lastly responding by referring to Capensis in effect has stifled further
> discussion by fellow listers. Since not everyone has access to it.

Access is free to everybody should they elect to subscribe to the journal which is being
advertised from time to time. If people have something of value to contribute, they are
unlikely to allow any discussion to be stifled by the mere absence of Capensis...

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