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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Sorry if this dupes, didn&#8217;t seem to
post to the list when I emailed it a few hours ago.</span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Regards,</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Dean Collins<br>
Cognation Pty Ltd<br>
<a href="mailto:dean@cognation.net" title="mailto:dean@cognation.net">dean@cognation.net</a>&nbsp;<br>
<U1:DIAL u2:st="on">+1-212-203-4357<br>
</U1:DIAL><U1:DIAL u2:st="on">+61-2-9016-5642</U1:DIAL> (<U3:CITY u2:st="on"><U3:PLACE u2:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sydney</U3:PLACE></U3:CITY></st1:place></st1:City>
in-dial).</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Dean Collins <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 06, 2007
2:49 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Asterisk Users Mailing List -
Non-Commercial Discussion'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> &#8220;Happy Birthday
Asterisk&#8221;</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>So I got to drop in on the afternoon sessions of the <a
href="http://www.voicepeeringforum.com/">http://www.voicepeeringforum.com</a>
&nbsp;held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>
yesterday.</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There&#8217;s a blogpost here <a
href="http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/vpfan-interesting-yet-frustrating.html">http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/vpfan-interesting-yet-frustrating.html</a>
but really just wanted to say because I didn&#8217;t see anyone else say it
yesterday <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>&#8220;Happy Birthday
Asterisk&#8221;.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Kevin Fleming from Digium gave a session
yesterday about Asterisk when we all realized that Asterisk was 8 years old as
of purely by co-incidence yesterday December 5th.<br>
<br>
On December 5th 1999 Mark Spenser released version 0.1.0 ..... and an industry
was born :)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I don&#8217;t know if the guys at Digium
celebrated in anyway but maybe there can be a big &#8220;User Event&#8221; in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Huntsville</st1:City></st1:place> in 2 years time
on the 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary. Just a thought.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

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size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Regards,</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dean Collins<br>
Cognation Pty Ltd<br>
<a href="mailto:dean@cognation.net" title="mailto:dean@cognation.net">dean@cognation.net</a>&nbsp;<br>
<U1:DIAL u2:st="on">+1-212-203-4357<br>
</U1:DIAL><U1:DIAL u2:st="on">+61-2-9016-5642</U1:DIAL> (<U3:CITY u2:st="on"><U3:PLACE u2:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Sydney</U3:PLACE></U3:CITY></st1:City></st1:place>
in-dial).</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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