CONGRATULATIONS on some of the most mind-bending gobbledegook I have read in years:

".... research showing almost half of all home Internet users are online for between one and five hours a week...

...Are we now a nation of techno nerds?"

Lesley Richardson (January 18) deserves an award for studied vagueness. I defy anyone to clearly understand what she means.

G R Williamson,

Greenfield Park Drive,

Stockton Lane, York.

Updated: 10:49 Thursday, January 24, 2002