One can only take so much. My local ISP, (earthlink) is so unreliable that I have decided to cease looking upon internet service as a basic home utility. I get disconnected nearly every time I move the mouse. The phone company blames the ISP, the ISP blames the phone company, and my computer blames them both. No triangulation of alleged "customer support" has been of any help.

Since I have easy and reliable internet access at work, both to me and my family, I am stopping my access to Earthlink, at least for now. (Disconnected again).

I fully understand the repercussions of this. All my e-mail buddies will have to deal with it. I'm sure all the spam companies will be devastated. And unfortunately, Mudcat PM's wont't get through.

But I'm certainly not quitting the Mudcat. I'll be monitoring and posting, probably as "Guest, Bluejay from work" or something. Maybe I can even set my work computer as "BlueJay". I don't know.

In the meantime, Lonesome EJ knows how to contact me. As does Don Meixner, Rick Fielding, & maybe Spaw, if he's been paying attention.

Adios from this bumfuq computer apparantly using telegraph lines. Thanks, BlueJay