Subject: Caught Up in the Downs
From: Christopher W. Thomas (creatician@poetic.com)
Host: 207-172-227-124.s61.as1.dnb.erols.com
Date: Fri Oct 2, 1998 at 11:42AM

Yesterday, decided to upgrade the NN browser

Thought it would only take a few while trousers
Went through the wash cycle and then the dryer tumble
... It turned out to be an all-day affair which fumbled ...

Lost in the tide of never-ending add-ons meant as part
Until it became obvious some were just hawking the start
Of new customer relations thru selling their special wares
Many of which I give not a hoot or a single solitary care

Perhaps it would have been better if all add-ons were described
Before engaging folks into time spent wasted - just to be denied
For many of these special "free" add-on utilities cannot at all be used
Until initiated by ordering the "full" programs they have you choose

And many of us have no desire or means to take part in these trials
So should not have our time wasted by all these piles and piles ...
Of unusable implementations which are not really at all part ...
Of the browser upgrade - without which - things tend to fall apart

Just like pants ... !!!

- Tristram

(c) Christopher W. Thomas
11:40am Friday, Oct. 2nd, 1998