Thanks for all the spam..... these posting are like kindergarden of IP users with little answers like: " please keep in mind that pings add traffic to the net " Blah, blah. blah. I'm sure I'm not the only one on the net that considers these little ' oh, tie your shoe before walking ... so called, help messages ' and the ' make sure to put all the hair in your pants before zipping your zipper..... notes ... SPAMtastic Honestly, how some people who just learned how to PING or do BGP now believe that everyone else on the net needs their advice on the net is a mystery. Everybody PINGs, everybody will always ping to check out connectivity problems, etc. Based on the NOISE on the list now, we need an AUP entry on *how many packets you can PING a day* or other foolish KID talk like ;-) " lets all charge .001 cent per ICMP packet, that 'll control them....." (typical com-priv spam...) And please, lets not get into a weeks SON-OF-SPAM spawns SON-OF-SPAM discussion on the little zine ad that happened to cyberplop this weekend. My hard disk still has traces of magnetic SON-OF-SPAM electrons from the last zine ad that ravaged our mailboxes. Surely, there is some intellectually stimulating neurons out there about to spark some *new interesting* ideas :-) Tim -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tim Bass | #include<campfire.h> | | Principal Network Systems Engineer | for(beer=100;beer>1;beer++){ | | The Silk Road Group, Ltd. | take_one_down(); | | | pass_it_around(); | | http://www.silkroad.com/ | } | | | back_to_work(); /*never reached */ | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+