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Vickie Banks
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Comment to those of you who just HATE our continuous PC vs. MAC
discussion (and flame me regularly for allowing it).
After years, and years, and years of it, I'm tired of
it too. But lots of people really do want to discuss this,
so I have decided that we can't censor it. Many people do find
it valuable. I have been reading your flames about it, but
have decided that those who find it valuable should prevail
for now. A characteristic of this list seems to be that we
endlessly discuss whether PC's or MAC's are better--whether some
of us want to or not. Sorry. Maybe this year will be better!/VB