Anyone know where I can find aprox. stats. on number and size of ISP's in north america? Is this presently tracked (guessed at?) anywhere?

Depends on what kind of "ISP" you are interested in. For dialup, Boardwatch Magazine <http://www.boardwatch.com> has a quarterly listing of Internet providers. If you think the Internet is more than just dialup, I suggest looking at some more sources. The Maloff Company <http://www.maloff.com/> has lots of good, but now out-of-date (February 1996 is ancient for the Internet) information in their report on the Internet marketplace. For information on how part of the non-profit Internet Providers are doing, the 1996 study on libraries and the Internet released this Fall is a good starting place <http://istweb.syr.edu/Project/Faculty/McClure-NSPL96/NSPL96_T.html>. Things are both better, and worse than you've read in the popular press. The traditional thinktanks, the Gartner Group, Forrester Research, etc, also have a number of studies of the Internet, but I can never afford to even look at their catalog. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation