Re: On the control of the Internet.

Generally speaking, it will be treated as damage and routed around.

That fable only really stands a chance when the damage is accidental; in the case where such "damage" is being deliberately inflicted, particularly by government, it gets more complicated. A lot of the 'net is a little more centralized than it ought to be in order to allow the "routed around" concept to work successfully. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.