Dear Susan, I generally try and help strangers whenever I can, but I'm sorry, I can't help you. I read your questions and felt they were not questions that I could quickly and easily address--I could've written essays on some of your prompts...and to be honest, I'm not certain you have designed them as well as you might to nail down user perspectives, but I'm no expert on research design and wish you well in your study, will On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, susan gardner wrote: > > Auuugggh! Will you people please stop bemoaning the educational system > and answer my survey? Geesh! All I wanted were user perspectives on > "Catcher" so I could test a new fiction retrieval system. >