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Scientist finds fungus that eats cd's

Now we have to worry about a fungus that could eat the aluminum from our cd's. Here is the link, just copy and paste.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319&rtmo=lzFklAlt&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/01/6/18/wfung18.html

Can you imagine if this makes it's way to the U.S. and
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cornfedboy
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i've been led to believe that the fungus can be defeated merely by coating all your cd's (and other aluminum discs) with a moderately thick layer of vasoline. FWI, speakers and digital components seem to respond best (on the anti-fungal front) to k-y jelly. or so i'm told. -kelly
cornfedboy
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here's another story on the fungus from stereophile:

http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1073
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