Eric -- Interesting!  But when I cast my original query, Brazil was the
only site which offered.  Now that it has been peered inside the USA, and
I cannot get a response from one site, how could I change sites (even if
an alternative is offered), then re-connect the peers (despite the silence
and inabilities of the existing peer co-owners?)?
 
cheers,
Mel
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>
> There are  a number of servers  in Brazil which are  totally broken. They
> are running with outdated versions of the network tables, which cannot be
> updated either for  technical reasons (not enough disk  space) or because
> of an  administrative error  when configuring the  server. The  people in
> charge do not answer mail. The best advice I can offer is to relocate the
> lists to another server if you have the misfortune of being hosted on one
> of these servers. Note that there are a number of servers in Brazil which
> work just fine :-)
>
>   Eric
>