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Howard Stewart also would give up e-mail, but adds: "I have a question. What happens to all the spam I get now? Would it build
up in a spam queue somewhere until it reached a critical level where it would explode in a giant spam mushroom cloud and inundate
all the computers worldwide? I would hate to be the cause of such a disaster but I couldn't work the way I do without the
Web."
Fear not, for we have alerted Homeland Security.
John Huie wants to split the baby: "At work? . . . Gotta have my e-mail. . . . At home? . . . Gotta have my Web."
As mentioned, some members of the Brigade did back flips to avoid having to choose.
"No way, dude. Can't do it. I'd get the DT's really fast and have to be carried away in an ambulance. The ER would have to
bring out a laptop with wireless so I could get my e-mail fix and do a little surfing," laments Ken Diliberto. "I don't know
that I could give up either."
After more hemming and hawing, however, Diliberto says he would "probably give up e-mail," before adding, "enough of this
suffering."
And finally, we'll end with a fellow who chose Door No. 3.
"That is quite a choice," says Keith Rosenberg. "Being an IT geek, both are critical to my job and I really cannot do without
either. . . . So I would get rid of both and get a job as a vacation tester!"
There's always room for another point of view. The address is buzz@nww.com.
