On Sun, 29 May 1994 09:36:19 -0500, Joan Korenman wrote: >there may also be some people who will pay you to help them deal with >mailing lists as well. I am still having trouble seeing why this latter >service is needed by more than a few people, though, and thus why people >would pay you to do what many of us already do for free (i.e., help folks >who are having difficulty using our lists). Our computer center has a help desk (physical room or by telephone or email) and LOTS of free handouts. So howcome an enterprising student has been doing a booming business in the library's 24 hour room selling a "How to use the Internet at UConn" document at $5 a pop? I'm not sure because I haven't read it, but if you go to the Computer Center and ask they hand you a form and point you toward a wall of handouts. I expect there are people willing to pay for the needle without the haystack (Here's how the form looks all filled out; here's a step by step example of a login; here's a step by step example of how to get nifty software from one of the many file transfer (aka ftp) sites listed in the handy appendix ;-) /s Murphy A. Sewall <[log in to unmask]> (203) 486-2489 voice Professor of Marketing (203) 486-5246 fax