On 28/11/2017 15:51, Martin wrote:

By chance Face Book found another stranger that I might know. He says he is a
senior manager with KPN, the Dutch equivalent of BT. He asks people to petition
the Dutch govt to ban Glysophate because it is a poison. KPN is an utter mess
too.

Glyphosate is surprisingly non toxic to mammals considering how deadly
it is to green plants. Related derivatives are being investigated as
antimalarials since the parasite also has a shikimic acid pathway.

http://aac.asm.org/content/43/1/175.full

Towards the end - rest of it discusses other novel compounds.

KPN would have to work very hard to be as bad as Belgacom. Think phone
connectors the size of old round pin 16A plugs and 1960's BT attitudes
towards customer satisfaction and installation dates. They may have
improved recently I suppose. My landlord was not impressed when they
installed the ISDN box full of blinking lights as a prominent feature in
the dining room - but they did it on his watch so not my problem.

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Regards,
Martin Brown