Well, here's the one a few of you have been waiting for!! :-)

A brief trip into ukrm yesterday has highlighted to me just how 'past it
all' I am with Usenet these days - I posted a 'swap ad' there and got the
usual (and not entirely unexpected) 'clever dick' responses from a couple of
silly little people showing off and trying to look clever! OK, no bother
(standard procedure), but the *problem* is I wasn't able to ignore it
entirely and found myself settling into a nice little bit of
argy-bargy....!! :-)

Then I thought OK, it *really* is time for a Reality Check......

The rate of posts there is *staggering*, btw - just hitting 'synchronise' to
get posts slugged my machine down to a crawl and they just keep coming!! How
anyone can cope with as many as a thousand posts a day (apparently, I'm
told) I simply can't imagine - makes it look a bit feeble in here, I can
tell you!! (Actually it's ridiculous, but there you go!)

Anyway, it's done me some good as it's made me realise just how much time
I'm wasting now with what has, essentially, become a futile occupation. I've
taken my investigations into 'audio' about as far as I want and I think it's
been a while since I had anything really useful to say in here. Also, my own
direct email correspondents have had short shrift for a while now - due to
the time I've spent posting on the group, so I'm going to try and 'break
out' and will be unsubscibing from here as soon as I've seen this post
appear. (I've been leading up to it for a while now, as a few here know from
direct emails and I've already offloaded the webpages in preparation!)

So, many thanks to one and all for what fun/help has been forthcoming here
and deepest apologies to those who couldn't see the 'funny side' and who
feel they have been personally affronted (I'm sure they'll get over it ;-)
and a cheery farewell to all!! :-)

(Pleased to hear from anyone direct if anyone needs/wants to contact me for
any reason - goes without saying.).

Have: a) fun, b) a Happy Christmas, c) a Happy New Year and d) a Good Life!!

So long all... ;-)

Keith G(arratt)


(If I *can't* control the urges, I'll sneak back with dark glasses on
sometime in the future - under a pseudonym!! ;-)