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From: kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski)
Subject: Re: Anyone had mercury fillings replaced with non?
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Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 22:08:17 GMT
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In <1ud894INNnbb@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> hawley-matthew@cs.yale.edu (Matthew
Hawley) writes:

>   I'm wondering if anyone out there has actually had mercury-compound
> fillings removed and replaced with gold, amalgam (sp?), whatever...

Some other resources:

sci.med.dentistry, which has had discussion of the viability of alternative
fillings materials (none of which apparently measure up long-term to
mercury-containing amalgam yet), and a Bitnet mailing list:

*  The list AMALGAM provides information about dental "silver" tooth
*  fillings and some special aspects of chronic mercury poisoning.
*  For more information, send the following command to
*  <LISTSERV@dearn.bitnet> or to <LISTSERV@vm.gmd.de> via e-mail or
*  interactive message:
*
*    INDEX AMALGAM
*
*  For a subscription, please send the following command to
*  <LISTSERV@dearn.bitnet> or to <LISTSERV@vm.gmd.de> via e-mail:
*
*    SUBSCRIBE AMALGAM Your_full_name

I think the list is mainly in German, with a little information in
English.

The chronic fatigue syndrome list has had some messages regarding
dental amalgam, too; herewith are excellent instructions on searching
individual LISTSERV messages for a string (coincidentally the string
in question here):

From: Roger Burns <BFU@NIHCU.BITNET>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:35:07 EST
Newsgroups: alt.med.cfs
Subject: amalgam / How to Use LISTSERV DATABASE
Message-Id: <CFS-L%92123006380535@LIST.NIH.GOV>

                 TODAY'S QUOTE:

"If you ask an engineer what time it is, he'll tell you how to make a watch."


> I have read, that in this newsgroup you have discussed about amalgam
> in teeth. Unfortunately these articles are expired in my mailbox.
> Who could send a summary to me or post it in this newsgroup once more please?

Ah, a wonderful opportunity to learn more about LISTSERV!  Most LISTSERV
lists, including CFS-L, can have their archives searched by database
commands.  These commands must be submitted as a "batch job", however,
not as the simpler one-line commands most of us usually use.
Consider the following example:

//   JOB Echo=No
Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules  DD *
SEARCH AMALGAM IN CFS-L
INDEX
PRINT
/*

If you send the text above to LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV or to
LISTSERV@NIHLIST.BITNET you will have sent to you a listing of all
CFS-L messages that contain the word "amalgam" (regardless of whether
any of the letters are upper or lower case).

The "INDEX" command as shown above is unnecessary but I usually include
it because sometimes a database search will exceed the maximum allowable
output per job (2000 lines) and so the INDEX output will list all the
items that had been found from the search, and so I'll know what I
didn't get because of the maximum limit.

You can get those extra items by submitting another variation of the search
command.  If you use the command SEARCH AMALGAM IN CFS-L SINCE 13 NOV
you will then be sent all messages containing the word AMALGAM and had
been sent on or after the 13th of November.

You can also narrow your search by using the reserved word AND or broaden
it by using the reserved word OR.  E.g., entering SEARCH AMALGAM AND RESEARCH
would yield only those messages which contained both of those words.

A full description of how to use the LISTSERV database utility can be
obtained by sending the "regular" LISTSERV command INFO DATABASE to
LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV .  The one error in the database manual that will
be sent to you is that it says you must send database batch jobs to
the address DATABASE@nodename whereas in fact you must send them to
LISTSERV@nodename.


Roger Burns      bfu@cu.nih.gov / bfu@nihcu.bitnet / fidonet 1:109/432
List-owner, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome discussion
CFS-L  on LISTSERV at NIHLIST.BITNET or LIST.NIH.GOV
Newsgroup: alt.med.cfs

-- 
Peter Kaminski
kaminski@netcom.com


