400NE,

Al I can say is that e-mail is a very effective means of communication. In my experience, it is generally a precursor to a phone call, which can be scheduled by date and time to avoid phone tag and voice mail hell.

We will have to agree to disagree on e-mail. I think it is light years aead of two tin cans with a string between them. And you think it is tin cans without the string. Less filling; tastes great.

I think I laid out what my issue was quite clearly, but here it goes again. They listed a SPECIFIC rifle for sale. When an inquiry was made, they effectively admitted they did not have that rifle to sell (by the way, as of yesterday it was still listed as for sale).

Selling something you do not have is bad. Listing something for sale and telling people there will be a representative sample available for you to buy is worse. In my opinion, by any other name that is bait (showing an outstanding rifle as available for sale) and switch (not having that rifle but trying to direct the customer's attention to something different).

And if you tell the world to e-mail you with inquiries, don't act like ancient man seeing fire for the first time when you get an e-mail.

As for the differences between the phone in Sam Drucker's General Store

and my Blackberry

, I am certain that a collaboration between the two of us over a couple of cold ones would lead to a new version of communication - the NitroNet! The ultimate "Killer Application".

If you are going to the DSC, give me a call. If you PM me, I'll give you my cell phone number (the cell phone being a reasonable compromise between the telephone and the internet)