At 06:30 PM 5/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Nick, spastic is not the problem.
Absolutely right. It seems. After checking /var/log/messages there were many entries which referred in terms most unpleasant to my IOmega USB CD burner - the one which no K program yet has been able to write to. I restarted and left the system - along with Spastic, in Verbose mode, as Keith suggested - on and several desktops up, several programs running and waited to see if I'd ground to a standstill this morning. In fact, I must take this opportunity to say Thank you Keith and hallelujah! praised be all them who worked on Spastic. After getting upwards of 200 pieces of Spam a day (I once made the mistake of putting my email address on a website) and having gotten used to spending 15 minutes each morning deleting subtly-worded and ever-so-tempting come-ons inviting me to improve upon aspects of my genitalia, I came in this morning to find six messages in my In-box, ALL addressed to me, and ALL from people I know. I say again: Hallelujah! Thank you so much Keith, also, for taking the time yesterday to step me through my panic over the slowdown and suggest that I turn Spastic onto Verbose mode to monitor its activity, and also how, if I was just too freaked out for it, to disable it in one easy keystroke. So, too all those out there who care, and to paraphrase Keith, "Loath Spam? Get Spastic! http://spastic.sourceforge.net" Nick