>You would be (perhaps!)
>surprised to know how many people were wanting me to help them
>with some aspect of computers -- programming, broken printers,
>weird op sys stuff -- just for a few minutes, for problems that
>could be fixed *Real Soon Now* -- their predicted / requested /
>hoped for (sometimes implicitly, but only sometimes) **COST** ??

>Well, as I said, you would only *perhaps* be surprised.

Of course I'm not surprised, after all I make my living in the
computer industry. I won't fill tweeters with tales of woe in
this regard, but I could!

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>