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From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.misc
Subject: Re: Spiders Haters Unite (and roach haters!)
Message-ID: <13661@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 18-May-86 01:45:11 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 18 01:45:11 1986
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Reply-To: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (Scott Turner)
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In article <314@parcvax.Xerox.COM> bane@parcvax.Xerox.COM (John R. Bane) writes:
>
>I had the same problem, both at my parents' house and in my apartment.
>I used Roach Prufe (Boric acid, sugar, anti-caking stuff), and it
>worked wonders!

As Cecil Adams has told us numerous times, the best roach killer and only
active ingredient in Roach Prufe, etc., is boric acid.  Don't pay $10 a can
for this, as you can get it much cheaper from your local chemist.

                                        -- Scott Turner
                                        The Chairman of the Board