On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:12:02PM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Naw, the Internet can not be "read only". For every consumer, there must be > a provider. For every download, there is an upload somewhere else. The > internet IS synchrounous when taken as a whole. Hey, I just extended the > conservation of energy theory to the Internet! Not quite. You forgot about dropped packets. Data can get lost before reaching its destination, so there's generally more being sent than received. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss