Guest, thank YOU -- you made my day.
Where you stand now, so once stood I. I'm old enough to have gotten clear through post-graduate education without word processors or computers. I too had to learn about e-mail. There is still a lot that I don't know. Embarrassed to admit, there are still things that I have not learned to do.

Regarding Diego Baliardo: do you know the Gipsy Kings album, "Roots" , released I believe by Nonesuch in 2004? He had just become a grandfather for the first time, and the little song that closes the album, 'Petite Noya,' is how he welcomed his first grandchild into the world: he sings it himself.

A great deal of what I know about personal computers, the Internet, and e-mail, I learned with the help of the staff at 'Kinko's'. Today 'Kinko's' has been absorbed into Federal Express and its services are provided at those branches called "FedEx Office." Now, these public computers are NOT free of charge; they are rental stations, they take credit cards, and they are not cheap! But by renting computer time on the public computers at 'FedEx Office', I have access to those wonderful, patient, knowledgeable staffpeople. And although they have a lot of other things to do, many of these employees have been happy to help me. I owe them a lot. Just a word to the wise there.