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turbo
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I started a (rant) thread about TracFone and somehow it ended up being posted twice. When I attempted to delete one of them, there was no "delete" option.
:rofl:Greg Bernhardt said:Ban Him! :D
Thanks. I didn't know that. I was worried that my recent migration to Win7 might have screwed me up, somehow.berkeman said:That's because deleting threads is something Mentors do. It's about the only fun we have here, so there will be no Delete button for regular users. So there.
(You get to use the Report button as your Delete button)
turbo said:I was worried that my recent migration to Win7 might have screwed me up, somehow.
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