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To: freeus who wrote (7505)	5/18/1998 6:05:00 PM
From: Brian Malloy	of 74651

I laughed today with some amusement while Janet Reno was attempting to explain why MSFT is anti consumer. Here is somebody that for all practical purposes can not or will no longer use a computer. Yet she can speak as an authority on PC's and consumers. The mind boggles <ggg> HEADLINE: Reno Pencils In a Change: She Goes Back Off-Line While her antitrust lawyers are delving deep into the computer industry, Attorney General Janet Reno has forsaken her personal computer and returned to paper and pencil. She said at her weekly news conference yesterday that confusion over learning a new computer system drove her from cyberspace. As she spoke, her antitrust chief, Joel Klein, and three state attorneys general assembled two floors below in the Justice Department to negotiate a truce in their probe of software giant Microsoft. "I was doing okay with the office computer in Miami," said Reno, who was the state's attorney there before becoming U.S. attorney general in 1993. "I was getting fairly fluent with it. And then I came to Washington and had to learn anew. I didn't do a very good job of it." Under Reno, the Justice Department has set up several World Wide Web sites for adults and children who use computers, but she said, "At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer." washingtonpost.com

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