The next time you come to the Forum for some research, you'll notice another computer in the working and reading area. It's on a table by the first post in the room, and it has a connection ... To The INTERNET! AND, not only is it connected to the Internet, but it's a high speed DSL connection! AND, we also have a wireless connection, which you can use with your laptop! AND, we have a email account (through Google Gmail) which you can use to send or receive email at the Forum! We will initially sign up users for half hour time slots on the computer. Call or come by and put your name on the list, and if no one is using it or signed up, sit down and play! The rules are pretty simple: respect copyrights, use the computer for genealogy, please allow the receptionist to break in for a short time to help another patron, let some one else have the computer after a half hour, use floppy discs purchased from the forum, do NOT purchase or subscribe to or download any program or service, or obligate the Forum under any contract, and, since the hard drive is very small, don't store anything on the computer. One exception: please "bookmark" any genealogy site of general interest. On rare occasions, we will try to sort and organize the bookmarks, and if you give the bookmark a descriptive name when you save it, it will be more useful for others and easier to sort. For you wireless users, we have posted a "WEP" encryption key on signs in the library, so you can securely connect. You will know you have found our wireless connection, because it will identify itself as FINDOURANCESTOR. We do NOT have wireless "cards" so you will have to own or buy one that fits your laptop computer. If you are interested in finding out more about wireless, check out http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wireless-network.htm or http://www.vicomsoft.com/knowledge/reference/wireless1.html If you find a digital resource you want to refer to at home, you can use the newly created Google email account to email it from the Forum to yourself or someone else. There is a link on the computer desktop that will open a window for you, and you can compose and email relatively large files. If you want to have a piece of information available while at the Forum, you can email it to [email protected] and then open the document while you are at the Forum facility. Of course, anyone can read these emails, so be circumspect about what you write. If you have questions or requests, simply reply to this email and I will respond, either through the ORFORUM list, or privately, as you wish. Thanks, Rex