Some of you may find the subject URL of interest. It points to statistical summaries of a largish set of pings that we have been conducting regularly since December 1993. This is the data that persuaded Bob Metcalfe to change his prediction from complete demise of the Internet in 1996 to multiple small catastrophes. Your interpretation may vary. Geographical summaries of this data have been available for some time as the MIDS Internet Weather Report <URL:http://www.mids.org/weather>. Thanks, John John S. Quarterman <jsq@mids.org> Editor, Matrix Maps Quarterly and Matrix News <mids@mids.org> Matrix Information and Directory Services (MIDS) <URL:http://www.mids.org> +1-512-451-7602, fax: +1-512-452-0127 1106 Clayton Lane, Suite 500W Austin, TX 78723 U.S.A.