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   Message 8,050 of 8,941   
   Dennis Katsonis to Mike Powell   
   Funny tech support story   
   16 Jan 22 10:19:00   
   
   TZUTC: 1100   
   MSGID: 946.fidogazette@3:633/384 2648c835   
   REPLY: 6641.gazette@1:2320/105 26483b9c   
   PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Win32  Feb 22 2020 MSC 1924   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Win32 r3.151 Feb 22 2020 MSC 1924   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   -=> Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-   
      
    MP> @MSGID: <61E2FF92.942.fidogazette@bbs.mozysswamp.org>   
    MP> @REPLY: <61E23A80.932.fidogazette@bbs.mozysswamp.org>   
    > I think it's because the average computer user wasn't as educated in using a   
    > computer and took the "any key" literally ... looking for a key labeled   
    > "any".    
      
    MP> Some people are afraid of touching the wrong key and causing something   
    MP> bad to happen, too.  So, too much choice in what they can touch makes   
    MP> the anxious.  :)   
      
    MP> Mike   
      
      
   To think that I was like that once.  Once in schooled a friend and I worked up   
   tje courage to press the "Apple Key" on an Aplle IIe that we were using.   
      
   Nothing happened.   
      
      
      
   ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!   
   --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52   
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