AP>It was waiting for me when I got home from the bridge club at
  >11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12, 1998.  Is that a specific enough
  >statement? 
     Absolutely, anything further would be to excess.
DJ>>appears I am going to have to do all the work myself as Win 95
DJ>>doesn't like my 16 bit mail reader.
AP>Don't have any idea what you're talking about since I'm still on
  >Windows 3.1 and have been happily using the Silly Little Mail Reader
  >(DOS) since getting my computer in late 1993.
     Well Windows 95 works on a 32bit platform, and any 16bit 
programmes you have, now have to be used in DOS for the most part.  
However for your information the Microsoft Works, and Microsoft Word, 
included in Win 95 -- allow you to do things that are almost amazing in 
comparison to what I was using.  This is especially true if you invest 
in a colour printer.  It's almost a home form of desk top publishing.
     
DJ>>this new toy was supposed to make things faster and easier.
AP>Maybe for the real tekkie types.  For the rest of us I think the
  >learning curve involved in each upgrade makes things more complex and
  >slower as well as extremely frustrating at the outset.  Then, by
  >the time one learns how to use it and develops one's own shortcuts
  >and workarounds, another upgrade comes along and the cycle begins
  >again.
     Oh that's so true.  However it's speed saves a lot of time on the 
internet, my primary reason for considering an upgrade.  I hope this is 
the last for I bought it with that in mind.  It will probably last 
longer than I will.
 AP>I decided long ago that newer isn't necessarily faster and better 
and   >like to stick with what I know well and like using.  For 
example, I   >used my CP/M Kaypro from 1984 until late 1993 when I 
moved to this   >486/33 PC which has not needed any repairs except 
replacing a bad   >monitor while it was still under full warranty. 
Likewise I'm happily   >driving my 1984 Ford LTD Station Wagon with 
just over 100,000 miles on   >my rebuilt motor (the original was 
damaged in an accident at 126,000   >miles in 1993), a valve job a few 
months ago, and a new air-conditioner   >evaporator last week. Still 
have a lot of original parts on it including   >the complete electronic 
ignition system.  Have only replaced *one*   >sensor since buying the 
vehicle "new" as a demo with 10,000 miles on it   >in November 1994.  
And I only a few weeks ago finally gave up and junked   >my IBM 
Selectric II Typewriter that I bought in 1977 in favor of a $79   
>portable electronic Smith Corona for the occasional quickie typing 
job >(file folder labels, the occasional envelope) when I don't want to 
turn   >on the computer because the cost to repair it this time would 
have   >exceeded the cost of the portable electronic. The previous 
repair three   >years ago was only $43 so I felt it was a justifiable 
expense.  But $125   >this time was not. 
ÿ
     You sound a bit like me.  I still have an underwood portable 
typewriter I bought when I got home from WWII and lug it around to the 
cottage from time to time.  
     Anne I believe it was you who originally flagged me on the 
Woodside Literary Agency who was ripping off potential writers.
     Here's four others who are now under investigation by state or 
federal law enforcement agencies for the same sort of fraudulent 
action.
          Edit, Ink (James Leonard),  Williamsville, N.Y,
          Irene Rogers Literary Agency/  Western Publishing Group
          Mark Maine/ Authors Adventure Assistance Literary Agency
          New Brand Agency Group
          There is also one publisher:
          Commonwealth Publications, Inc., Edmonton, Ontario, Canada. 
See below:
          In February 1998 Commonwealth was the target of a CBC 
television expose' about their use of deceptive claims to lure authors 
into subsidy publishing contracts.  Hundreds of authors have been 
fleeced, usually for $6000 to $8,000 each.  The Royal Canadian Mounted 
Police have advised authors to pursue civil suits.
          Thought you might be interested.
 
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