Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:58:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Third Friday Minutes
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Robert MacIntosh wrote:

> And what, might you image, did them red-skinned folks have to say about them
> silly Europeans? Too bad they didn't have any plagues them could give the
> intruders to their shores. Might have changed history in significant ways...

I understand the jury is still deadlocked on whether Europeans got
syphilis from the Indians, but certainly they didn't get anything as
lethal as the smallpox and measles they passed on.

-- Dick Eney