Downloading, not envelope stuffing, is the future - or so people have been saying for years.

In her letter, the District Attorney said that Mrs. Zaleski, working out of her home, had supervised "envelope stuffing" of packets of tickets to the fund-raiser.

Opinions differ on how much the city's Democratic Party has helped women, but nearly everyone agrees that the clubs offer invaluable help, like envelope stuffing, to the candidates they anoint.

Some classic work-at-home schemes are medical billing, envelope stuffing and assembly or craftwork.

And even envelope stuffing, now paying $10 an hour in New York City, might be a slightly more profitable, if not enviable, experience.

Originally found as ads in newspapers or magazines, equivalents of "envelope stuffing" have expanded into more modern media, such as television and radio ads, and on the Internet.

We are talking just after the grand opening of the Walworth County Democratic campaign headquarters, where an hour's worth of envelope stuffing gets you in a photograph with cardboard cutouts of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Fraudulent business opportunity promoters use the classifieds and the Internet to tout all kinds of offers, from pay phone and vending machine routes to work-at-home businesses like medical billing and envelope stuffing.

"I've done envelope stuffing, phoning, fund-raising for Lois Bronz and Eddie Mae Barnes," Mrs. King said.

In the letter, Mrs. Pirro said Mrs. Zaleski, working out of her home, supervised "envelope stuffing" of packets of tickets to a fund-raiser for the Mayor.