From: radioacti...@gmail.com   
      
   Dear Marco,   
      
   Again, thanks for your concern about this Google-abandonment looming next   
   month.   
      
   But you should know:  I just now read--or more precisely, TRIED to read--your   
   linked Thunderbird tutorial.   
      
   It might as well have been in Mandarin, Tagalog or Thai.  That is, I   
   understood many of the words, but virtually NONE of the concepts.  And my   
   cyber-hip lady friend (elsewhere in the USA, so she can't train me) who warned   
   me that Thunderbird would be WAY    
   over my skill level seems to have been actually UNDERSTATING it.   
      
   Look, I understand calculus, nuclear physics and advanced algebra, but never   
   getting a whit of training-after-sale for my Apple, this is ALL Greek to me.    
   (You don't know how much I envy people like yourself who are so well-trained   
   in cyber stuff that    
   this Thunderbird tutorial seems pretty simple to you.)  Now, the Apple   
   saleslady DID assure me, "Hey, you're clearly a smart guy, and this is an   
   intuitively-designed computer, so you'll pick it up."  That was seven years   
   ago, and she couldn't have been    
   more incorrect.   
      
   Can't you or SOMEONE out there offer a simple (i.e., five steps or so, not 25   
   or so) process that DOESN'T require installing ANYTHING to simply   
   read-and-post re alt.obits?  Again, I don't care a whit about other   
   newsgroups, but this one is HUGELY    
   important to me.   
      
   Thanks for your response.  (Send a private email, if you prefer, to:      
   RadioactiveSeattle["at"-sign symbol]Gmail.com   
      
   Thanks again!   
      
   BRYAN STYBLE/Florida   
      
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