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<rant> For over ten years I've been responding to requests. Sometimes it just takes a minute or two. Sometimes it takes hours, providing a formula, a tutorial, a chart, a spreadsheet. Some take the form of a jillion byte spreadsheet with the demand request:   fix it so it works. Half the time I never got so much as a thank-you. Once I got six requests in a single e-mail. I replied to all six, but got no response. Several months later the same guy sent me eight more requests. I started a response with several words known only to me and Mephistopheles. I often get requests that ask me to reproduce expensive software that downloads and analyzes stocks. Once I was asked to join the Motley Fool. I did and within a month had twenty six requests. I answered sixteen ... then quit. My opinion of Homo sapiens was diminished. I still have little respect for the species: Click! In March, 2009, we went on a cruise. When I returned, there were over two dozen requests. It would have taken me days to respond. That's when I really I felt my age. What used to be fun was now a chore. I decided that this must end ... hence the notice on gummy-stuff. Since then I get very few requests ... and the downloads from my web site have increased dramatically (from 25 GB in Feb/09 to 65 GB in Mar/09). I am one happy 75-year-old. I can spend more time writing and painting and still maintain my interest in things financial (without the headaches). </rant>