Dear Friend, In our last e-mail I said our computers were finally working well after about a month of down-time for both our main computer and primary backup machine. Well guess what, it was very short-lived! Once again problems set in late last week. First our backup machine again had problems when its HP Scanjet 5P failed and several MS Windows dll system files somehow were lost or corrupted. Numerous calls to both Gateway and Hewlett Packard again met with incredibly poor tech support from both of these firms. Then our main Pentium 111 new Dell System had lots of problems, including a non-working Modem and odd electrical arcing type sounds upon boot-up. For a change we received good tech support from a Dell Technician and as of late today it's now working well! Oh, I almost forgot, our real-time PC Quote Internet Hyperfeed went down late morning Friday and was down the rest of the day. We do not know if it was working today (Monday) as the PC itself was down all day today. Unfortunately, our PC Quote has had numerous times of data interruptions and no connections or lost connections, sometimes lasting a few minutes and sometimes hours (or even days) ever since we first started using then in May. In case your thinking perhaps our computers have a virus, this is impossible. As far as we know, you can only get a Virus from downloading and opening an infected file, running an infected floppy disk or opening an infected file attached to an e-mail. We also have a top-rated Anti-Virus Program running at all times. We practice “Safe Computing” and have for years. Never doing anything which could possibly put a Virus on our Computers. We never open Attached Files, even from so-called “trustworthy parties” or people we know, as they may have a virus in their computer, which they are not aware of and can unknowingly transmit it. For example, a Trading System Vendor “Tools For Traders”, Grants Pass, Oregon recently sent us an e-mail asking about the status on adding a link to their website from our Links Page https://www.webtrading.com/sites.htm which e-mail of theirs contained a very dangerous and well-known Attached File Virus. When we asked them about it, they said they did not know how it got in the e-mail or on their computer, but did say they think they did in fact somehow get a virus in the past, which somehow was transmitted to CTCN. Our Anti-Virus Program spotted the Attached File E-Mail right away, even without us opening it, which we would not have opened anyway. Nevertheless you should be cautious when dealing with Tools For Traders, especially involving accepting any e-mail attached files from them. As we do, you too, should rigidly adhere to the Safe Computing principles referred to above to avoid loss of your valuable data on your Hard Disk and the possibility of you unwillingly infecting someone else’s computer. In spite of all our incredible computer problems for the past 1-1/2 months, we still anticipate adhering to our new Seasonal Publishing Schedule, with the next issue, the Summer Issue, being mailed out via Postal Mail or via e-mail no later than Mid-August. What with all this we haven't been able to send you much in the way of trading knowledge of late, but can guaranty you this will change in the near future with lots of free trading information via this new opt-in e-mail list channel. Until we are in a better position to send you the considerable trading knowledge we have planned, we suggest in the meantime you take good advantage of CTCN’s powerful Webtrading Search Engine located at https://www.webtrading.com/searchengine.htm to do lots of free research on all aspects of commodity futures trading, including trading system names, individual names, methodologies and products and services. Thanks for all your patience and being a member of this e-mail communications list. Regards, Dave Green CTCN Club Membership https://www.webtrading.com/member.htm Traders Organization https://www.traders.org/ TradersAuction https://www.tradersauction.com/