This brings up a question that has been bugging me. Occasionally, especially when I visit websites outside the U.S. I find references to one or more "mirror sites" and the suggestion to access the one closest to me geographically. This makes no sense to me because the beauty of cyberspace, I presume, is precisely the *absence* of geographic restraints. European sites take no more time to load than my local provider 40 miles down the turnpike. Now, I can see having mirror sites for extremely popular locations because too many people logging on to a single site might indeed clog access, and I can see suggesting to try one of the other URLs if any one is not accessible, but this business of thinking in terms of physical space seems irrational. Am I missing something? Thanks, Ingrid [log in to unmask] & [log in to unmask]