xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x x x x x x x Your Message Here x x x x x x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx which takes over 718 characters because all the blank spaces are real spaces. I have pointed out this discrepancy in logic, but the people readily reply the space they are talking about is in the human mind, and not in the computers. To which _I_ reply "Barnyard Material!" THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT OUT TO SAVE "BUZZWORD BANDWIDTH". . . THEY ARE OUT TO CONTROL YOU. . .DON'T LET THEM. "Netiquette" is something THEY have invented TO CONTROL YOU! All you have to do is remind them that each individual has a most powerful protection against anything they don't want to see. . .THE DELETE KEY! You will probably also have to remind them, sometimes in the manner of using a different platform to speak from, if their response is not to post your messages, that: "SINCE EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN DELETE KEY, THERE IS NO NEED TO DELETE THIS FOR THEM! Chapter 10 TPC, The Phone Company Those Who Would Be King, Part IV My apologies for using the United States as an example so many times, but...most of my experience has been in the US. Asychnronous Availability of Information One of the major advantages of electronic information is that you don't have to schedule yourself to match others in their schedules. This is very important. Just this very week I have been waiting for a power supply for one of my computers, just because the schedule of the person who has it was not in sync with the schedule of the person picking it up. The waste has been enormous, and trips all the way across an entire town are wasted, while the computer lies unused. The same things happens with libraries and stores of all kinds around the world. How many times have you tried a phone call, a meeting, a purchase, a repair, a return or a variety of other things, and ended up not making these connections? No longer, with things that are available electronically over the Nets. You don't have to wait until the door of the library swings open to get that book you want for an urgent piece of research; you don't have to wait until a person is available to send them an instant message; you don't have to wait for the evening news on tv....