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Hm, maybe he's just saying that one conversion was positive, meaning, it worked.

Posted By: lx on 2008-06-25
In Reply to: it is in the impressions list so not much goes with it but here is the whole sentence - stuckonMT

Subject: Hm, maybe he's just saying that one conversion was positive, meaning, it worked.

That's my best guess.


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