Re: newbie questions

[Martin Maechler]

I  DO use  bbdb 1.48  AND  GNU Emacs 19.19  --- nicely working.

What did I 'change' ?
1) Make sure that  BBDB's  'mail-extr.el[c]' files are used -- 
         NOT GNU Emacs 19 ones.
        [this was suggested in the bbdb-list  by Jamie Z.]
 This was the only NECESSARY thing to stop occasional 'crashes' of  bbdb.

2) also:  (setq bbdb-electric-p nil)
      [and others:  NON-american ZIP codes,...]

NOTE: You must put things "insinuate...." into your ~/.emacs (or
        equivalent) as it is said in the instructions !