Dial-up doings

Here at the Adobe Hacienda, we got along fine with a CompuAdd for a long, long time (somebody's using CompuAdd in a marketing course; how many remember Austin's other big computer start-up?). Now the home workhorse is a 98-vintage Dell. The connection is dial-up, which is also fine, but here's a word of warning based on recent experience. Don't bother to download IRS Publication 17: wait until it arrives in the mail or you won't be able to do anything else for Quite Some Time! This is one big file (2M *.pdf).