Massively off-topic, but I was doing a bit of research on another project and came across this fun-filled fact today. Between 1992 and 1996 there were 14 fires in electronic equipment rooms caused by COOKING EQUIPMENT! Today's duh-you've-got-to-be kidding-hint: do not put stoves, hot plates, ovens or rotisseries (that's correct, rotisseries) in your equipment rooms. If your network operations staff want some roasted chicken, may I suggest a good resturant or a seperate kitchen, not the computer room. The good news was dedicated computer and telecommunication facilities averaged less than $0.44 million in direct fire losses per year. Compared to $21 million in direct fire losses per year from electronic equipment fires in other structures (e.g. general businesses, hospitals, hotels, universities, etc). In case your marketing people don't get it, I just gave the folks building (good) co-locate facilities a huge gift for their salespeople in this paragraph. However, past performance is not a guarantee of future results :-) -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation