Randall,

>Another question: I've been thinking about browsing
>the Usenet news groups for questions and providing
>answers, and I'm wondering if the S/N ratio is still
>garbage there? I left in disgust years ago (late 80's)
>because of the noise and flame wars. Still the same or
>worse? :)

The public.microsoft newsgroups are pretty decent. The VFP groups are the best of course. There's also the MSDN forum at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=60

Another good resource is Steve Black's wiki at http://fox.wikis.com/

>Yes, it's No OPeration. Old time assembly hack here :)

My last written NOP was probably almost 10 years ago. *g*