Nothing nefarious that I know of. Just the fact that the Bill Gateses of the world apparently threw up some _new_ hoops, _after_ I had figured out the procedure of which you speak (or something similar to it) and opened all of the pdfs that I wanted to open, for a few months in 2003 or thereabouts. In more recent years and as a result of whatever these new Bill Gates antics are, my computer has gone haywire _every_ _time_ I've tried to open any pdf, excel or similarly-elitist-format document. And trust me; I left _no_ stone unturned in trying, unsuccessfully, to open one particularly-important excel document a few months ago.

E-mail is already the _real_ snail as it is. For example, I can walk out to my common-man's-mail box in often less time than what it takes to wait for a single page-turn to occur in e-mail, and that alone is arguably reason enough to quit the internet. Therefore, I think I'm compromising pretty good by staying on the internet at all. My dad, a retired nuclear physicist who still splits wood too, can't _even_ stay on the internet without frequent help from the nose-ring-generation faction of the family members. And on BTI not too long ago, we saw how John Forester, similarly to me, has better things to do than to figure out how to download the nose ring generation's latest video formats without giving them all night to download while he sleeps. In short, if the Bill Gateses of the world think that I'm going to putter around figuring out, for a second time in only 4 years, how to use the same (i.e., _figured_ out by me only 4 years ago!) optional bells and whistles thereof, they _really_ need to get a clue.

But thanks for the tip that you gave me a while back about how to maneuver through Topica archives. _That_ still works, the last I checked.

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