Succumbing to bloat

As you may have noticed we have succumbed to bloat. Reluctant to burden you with more reading and to enrich the US Postal Service further we fought hard to cram into 8-pages, then with a single page insert into 10p, now we have let out the notch in the belt and hope to live with 12 or even to slim down again if only tollsters would just calm down and stop doing so many interesting new things that we feel compelled to write about. With the aid of a supersensitive digital letter scale we discovered that 12p of our superior paper can just fit into an envelope and keep under the 2oz level after which postage charges jump into the troposphere, though any enclosed nagging note about a subscription renewal will take us over the 2oz edge. Sorry we can't give you staples for the same reason but please note that the pages are laid out with a more generous margin on the left side of the front page, so that the collectors and librarians among you can apply a 3-hole punch to the lefthand side and keep copies in a 3-ring binder. We'll eventually have to follow the herd onto the wobbly WWW (our excuse is we're waiting until modems get to megabauds) but meanwhile please note that our paper pages can be turned in a few milliseconds where the blessed computer with a 33.6K baud modem is hundreds of times slower. Also the paper is easier on the eyes, more portable and doesn't crash on you. Of course the time may come when document transmission improves sufficently and goes into a common format for us to buzz this stuff down the lines to you. Then if you want it on paper you'll have to buy it yourself. Ha ha...