Ted continues the galloping thread(s):

> I'm with Alfredo.  Simple.  Elegant.
>
> ..... I'm wondering if it would accomplish some of what Ken
> and Gavin are wanting without detracting to add a P.S.
>
> Dear Carly:
>
> We like the HP 3000 that Hewlett-Packard
> invented 25 years ago so much that
> we took out a full-page ad in
> The Wall Street Journal to tell you.
>
> Signed,
> MPE users worldwide
>
> P.S.  Your turn next.  Tell them how it
> runs their online retailing and their
> credit unions and sells them their
> airline tickets.  Tell them about
> http://www.hp.com/go/3000.

Already we have a considerable improvement over Alfredo's
original, IMHO...      ;-))    ....  I'm still not sure if even the
above is quite enough, but it has one of the key URLs;  and
I really like the "Your turn next"...   Since I'm flying off the wall
on this thread tonight anyway, I toss back a slight mod of Ted's
mod;  for the "bottom half / two-thirds / whatever of the page":
==============================

P.S.  Your turn next:  Don't be bashful
about telling everyone how the HP 3000
uses MPE/iX and Image/SQL to run their
online retailing and credit unions, and
sells them their airline tickets.  Tell them
about  http://www.hp.com/go/3000.
==============================

> Right, but we want to strike the balance--we can lose our
> audience with too little just as well as with too much :-(.

Exactly....  remember the "education level" of the audience for
INFOWORLD, let alone the WSJ.....

....  yeah:   Ted's "Your turn next" was cool....

:-) ,

Ken Sletten