Letter: Baffled by the Net

Sir: As a somewhat older reader of The Independent, I never saw myself as one of society's dispossessed until recently when I discovered what it is like to be marginalised. The very great increase of Internet/computer advertising in the publication being directed at those who have "logged on" prompts me to raise the question as to whether the unwashed, computer- illiterate minority of your readers could claim a special reduction in the price by supplying proof of ownership of a fountain pen and the ability to use it.

BRIAN WAINWRIGHT

Haxby, Yorkshire