|In the early days of the internet, peering made much more sense that it |does today. Until fairly recently, there was something like one 56kb |(or mabe a T-1) channel from north america to europe, and similarly |from NA to Japan & asia. And lets not talk about Australia. With that |type of connectivity. it made a lot of sense for the US & Europe to send |one copy of a post that would be exploded at the far end. The more things change, the more they stay the same: the MBONE uses a form of peering for multicast audio/video. I'm glad to see that the rest of the Internet has caught up to LISTSERV(R) ;-) /Pete Weiss