It's finally happened, I'm going to sign off, probably permanently. Many reasons, the main one being that SBC raised my monthly from $29 to $49. Road runner isn't an option, they're so screwed up that they assigned two of us the same user name, and the only way to straighten it out would have been to go to their website, which of course, I couldn't sign on. They had two shots at it, I'm not going to give them a third. Another, SBC in their "infinite wisdom" has refused for many years to upgrade the lines and equipment in this area, it's basically 1950 stuff still crunching along. The result is that any dial up is going to be unreliable, many times being inaccessable for several days at a time.
Add on increasing pressure here at home, and declining usage of the internet, even $1 per day becomes more than it returns. I have had one email in two weeks, check the same five groups once a day and usually don't open anything to read it. Haven't pulled down a midi file for over a month now, you might say I have zero return for the money.
Cheers, keep the chips hot and the tool cool.
Greybeard/Lennie the Lurker.
(Cutoff is midnight tonight.)