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 -- > > 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 are running with outdated versions of the network tables, which cannot be 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 >