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Just returned from a one-week absence to find 58 messages, 54 of them from
the EndNote Users forum. About 40 are from DOS users, the rest Mac [we
don't write in often because our computers are sooooo easy to use... ;) ]

But this disproportion, and the spectre of a Windows EN+ version rising,
prompts me to ask if the Forum has ever considered an amicable separation
into platform sessions (DOS, Windows, Mac, etc.)? Sometimes the issues
under consideration ARE of a generic order (how to import, how to format
styles), but many of the problems people raise are very platform-specific,
having to do with operating systems protocols or hardware-software
integration.

I suppose there will be lots of reasons offered for maintaining a holistic
unity, for the same reasons that you permit new users to take up space and
time with elementary queries. But it's pretty wearing on non-DOS user to
have to wade through much back-and-forth about "Directory Cee Colon
backslash" problems, when THAT arcana is the very reason that six years ago
I happily switched to the Mac.

Do any Mac users out there agree? Or is it better to remain with the main
forum and our apparent status as a (largely) silent minority?
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