December 3,   1996









	The Sylvester person is going to make his pause even more deep.

	I shall continue to answer "serious" questions in the most complete way; that 
is as is close to readily available to myself.  That such questions should greatly 
multiply during the pause is not to be a frustration of the pause.

	The pause will continue toward the end of January.  

	There shall be no new ZEROPOINTERs between the time the homepage itself is 
updated and the end of the pause.  Whatever has been sent out will be examined for 
accuracy and continuity.  What will be sent out thereafter will be more polished and at 
least proofread.  

	The resumption of aggressive, if necessarily so, input into the present 
population of ZEROPOINTERs will not be conditioned by the presence of the freshly 
recruited novice.  

	Individuals who have made no responses will be deleted from the list.  This does 
not include personal friends of mine, most of whom have been deleted already.  Oops.

	When I begin again to push rather than to ride in the wagon, once again I shall 
expect for the posts to be indicative of a maturing process.  The realm of that judgment 
is personal to myself.

	Anyone who has a deepened and "tuned" database for their spell-checker or 
grammar checker is welcome to share it with Sylvester, who has one suspected of being 
juicey.  My own database does have dings which are to be gleaned.

	Anyone willing to be the beneficiary of any guarentees to the health or welfare 
of Sylvester are welcome to pay the insurance premiums that would institute and sustain 
such an insurance policy.  All my dead man's things have been dissolved and will be 
reconstrued at some point in the indefinite future.  The consideration of such things is 
not an implication of insecurity nor of risk nor of fear nor of anxiety nor of anything 
but to allow for the negative.  You can choose the policy and Sylvester will sign the 
thing in accordance with your own completion elsewise of the document.  I shall not sign 
anything that makes Sylvester Hazzard Christie uncomfortable.  The payment of the 
premiums and the disposal of the policy are exclusively yours thereafter and forever 
more.  Ahem.

	No one has done anything with either popquiz1.doc nor popans1.doc; not to my 
knowledge.  

	Any ZEROPOINTER may choose to confide in Sylvester. ZEROPOINTERs have done this.