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Deletum ad infinitum

From: ADOLFO.VILLALOBOS@telefonica.net [mailto:ADOLFO.VILLALOBOS@telefonica.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:25 PM
To: win@mesailing.com
Subject: About Deletum

I ´m in Mexico and spent a day within the research facility where
Deletum was designed, i spoke with the Dr. Castaño about this matters
of antifouling and antivegetative coats, in principle it can be
incorporated into the product, a research protocol has to be elaborate
but thinks is not to difficult.

Perhaps you can be interested in meeting him, he will be attending a
conference in London from Nov. 1th. to 4th. I already advided him about
this possibility and is ok for him.

If you are interested let me know to send you coordinates and you can
arrange a meeting during next week.

Best regards

Adolfo Villalobos

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Hi Adolfo,

Thank you for the update. I would love to meet Dr. Castaño at some point, but London in November will not be possible for me.

Please keep me up to date on Deletum, and I will keep my readers informed.

Best,

Win Fowler
win@windsend.org
http://www.windsend.org

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