If only gmail let you sort by subject line... I've been using squirrelmail for years- a web-based client that I run on my own server. I haven't found a really good way to update procmail recipes with squirrelmail, so it's back to the bash shell to update those. I'm really suprised there is no mention of procmail/filters in the article in relation to mailing lists- keep the lists, just filter them out of your inbox.

I *still* have my ][e from high school in a box in my garage. I wonder if this hack will work on a ][e, which was notably less integrated (a serial port was an add-on that I only had through my Apple-Cat Modem) as a //c, and was no where near as standardized as the serial ports on current(-1) generation PCs (since RS232 and other legacy IO ports have been obsoleted by USB) and current(-bazillion) Macintosh generations. (I could WTFV, but I'm on a wireless card and my video quality is sporadic at best).

I hope I'm not the first to notice this (since that would reflect poorly on the memories and knowledge of Apple history of my fellow readers)- the computer in view is very clearly an Apple ][c, not a ][+. The ][e and ][c were very similar, the + was a generation behind.

I have recently gone through a US adoption which started as a foster (we adopted our 15 year old son in October 2007). My wife and I chose to adopt in the US because there are so many children in the United States that need homes, we felt it was ridiculous to bring in a child from another country because it was "easier" or "cheaper." Face it, raising a child is going to be both "hard" and "expensive," no matter how you start the process.

There was a comment on how a US based adoption was way too expensive- maybe so, in private adoptions. We went through the state child protective services and all of our expenses could be re-imbursed, but I had legal coverage from my employer, so that covered the legal expenses (probably about $5000). If you go through a foster, you actually get a check each month until the child is adopted. This leads to many families running foster homes like businesses to support their households, it is true- but mostly the state needs this because there just aren't enough people willing to open their home to a child.

Most states give big incentives to adopt out of the child protective services pool, such as stipends and college tuition, but no doubt, it is hard and you have to keep working on it. There are classes you must take in parenting, medications, CPR, and first aid- which are all great skills to have- it is a shame that biological parents don't have to go through this training- I'm sure that there would be a lot fewer children in the care of child protective services if that were the case.

A foreign adoption has a lot of money trading hands for a child. That looks to me like buying a child, though you may call it something else.

Yes, if you want a healthy white newborn domestic adoption through the state, you're going to wait a very long time. You can shorten the time if you're willing to adopt a newborn with a different shade of skin, but you're still going to have to wait. There are a huge number of adoptable older children with no legal risk (their birth parents have had their parental rights permanently terminated by the court).