On Wed, 9 May 2001, Jim Dixon wrote: :China's use of the Internet is skyrocketing. People in China :understand that the common language of the Internet is English, and :they are learning it. Actually, the common language of the Internet these days, is the language of whomever has the largest consumer demand, and the means to pay for your services. Given the trade agreements in the works, I think Babelfish will be bigger than Yahoo in a few years. In the unlikely event people start to see communication as something other than a transaction, we would see some balance in the languages people spoke. Unfortunately, it seems language is also at the ridiculous whims of The Market(tm) too. If you really want to stop the attacks coming in from CN, tell your vendors they have 6 mo's to provide you with a well written and tested product, or you are switching everything over to OpenBSD. ;) -- batz Reluctant Ninja Defective Technologies