At 01:16 AM 5/18/99 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote: For me, one of the most delightful parts of running a small software business was reading the unsolicited letters. I kept a file folder of them. One of my favorites was from another East Bloc country that started out in clear English, slowly began to struggle, and then finally gave up and switched to their mother tongue. For a while, every few weeks we'd get a letter from Mosul, Iraq, each more creative than the last. Some were written in crayon, some pencil, some on paper with inch-tall lines, some block-printed with a rubber-stamp kit. Eventually, I guessed it was a young kid who'd regularly raid his dad's supply of stamps and envelopes. - John