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    <font face="sans-serif">I understand that Valeria and others are
      just expressing support for the proposed letter, since they may
      have not been able to vote within the given time. And I think it
      is good to hear about more support than may have been listed in
      the poll.<br>
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      I also think it is useful to give people a 24 hour warning of
      closing a poll. People often vote on the last warning :)</font>
    .parminder <br>
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    On Friday 13 May 2011 06:40 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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        <div>On 13/05/2011, at 8:50 PM, Valeria Betancourt wrote:</div>
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        <blockquote type="cite">Hi Jeremy, <br>
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          You can also include my name. Valeria Betancourt. <br>
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      <div>All,</div>
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      <div>Thanks, but the idea is not to include individual IGC members
        as co-signatories, because it's an IGC statement so that would
        be redundant.  We are only interested in adding organisations as
        co-signatories.</div>
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      <div>Thanks for your understanding.</div>
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