Dear Joe--

Thank you for your EXPERTISE!!! I will take your advice promptly. Please note that it was you and Max I invoked in my original message...I did NOT solicit advice from the estimable Messrs. Fielding and Catspaw. But since they seemed so happy clawing up the couch, I couldn't resist dangling some horsefeathers and fanbelts at them... weak of me, I know.

Dear Barbara-- I will be using your page for email in the future! Thank you for maintaining it!!!

Dear Paul-- The rule of thumb I follow is not to email anything I wouldn't want to read on the front page of the New York Times. Of course, as my father always says "thumbs are made to be broken."

V