Ah, Bert, as Bald Eagle pointed out, not mentioning me by name (kindly), I am the person responsible for "Every man...", which is a terrible mistake that I would never have caught without his eagle eye. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

To echo one or two writers here, I think the Internet has turned a whole generation into print oriented readers and writers: the only problem is that if it is in book form, they pay no attention.

But I am afraid I think this is a fleeting form: I don't believe we will be doing this quasi-letter format in 10 years. We will finally be using video phones (when broadband is laid down everywhere, which is already underway), and no one will piddle along in this fashion, except eccentric old fashioned Internet lovers.

We will have gone over to visual/oral for long distance communication.
I am enjoying this form while it lasts. It is a final strange efflorescence of the personal letter, but it is doomed.

yours, Peter T>