Ich bin ein [Texas-Born] Berliner

I’m pleased to be able to announce that as of about an hour ago, our friend Paul has access to the Internet again. His old email address, texas-paule@t-online.de, is defunct. Please use the name as listed in the title of this post together with @Gmail.com to reach him. From what you’ve said in your correspondence with me, I’m sure you’re ready to be able to reach him directly again, so have at it.

We are still configuring his setup so that he can handle his email in Outlook rather than having to use the web interface, not that there’s anything wrong with that. (Some problems never die; they merely recede temporarily.) We’ll eventually get it to work I’m sure, because I’ve been able to configure my own Outlook 2003/Gmail connection without any problems.

So for the moment Paul will be using Gmail’s web interface to deal with email. Though it may be a bit less convenient than Outlook, on the upside it does contain the addresses he had accumulated up until his recent medical problems. So for now I won’t make any promises about how quickly he’ll reply, but he should be able to receive your messages and read them without any problem at the Gmail website.

Now then, at long last, you may resume your previous direct relationship with Paul and I’ll tip my hat and step back into the shadow. Thanks for all of your help and for your kind words during this interlude. It has been a pleasure for me to get to know you and to add you to those whom I think of as friends.

Perry