-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [Well I am not quoting any of a rather lengthy post. It's in the archives if you want to read it.] What a load of crap. Nothing but wining and snivelling about internet traffic ratios between the states and overseas. How awful that 80% of Internet content is in English. Oh my people overseas actually want to connect to US sites and god forbid the foreign Telco's have to pay to improve their connections to the States. It is simple Economics 101 supply and demand. Content providers are producing what people on the net want thus the increasing demand. If there were people in Russia, or Asia, or India who were producing content that people wanted then the demand would be to connect to those servers but it is not. Nor should the silly notion that US providers should subsidize foreign Telco's so they can improve their communication be given a second thought. If their customers want/need improved bandwidth to the US then let them pay for it. It's bad enough that my tax dollars are being pissed away by the billions overseas without more of it be wasted on them. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNBKNBI9Co1n+aLhhAQHuXQQAicMDGwQyrE6uMEXH9yTFju4aRiFa0We3 5OkpempWNqpU2tzy8JefsrNbTWJCULQR2VdEBJ0oArA2M8rqNfXTjABN/4yCd3WX ztr+2XWXE72npt6uwI15iGpFW4I9jON0mk0LzrB571BMBEqP6zDBAJw8wFqjCgsc nlG3790VFcc= =OVpx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----