I'm always amazed at the level of optimism that our colleague, Jim, expresses here time and again, despite evidence to the contrary...
It sort of reminds me of a painting I remember having seen in Sco Paulo in a Painting Festival years back whose title was "A magnitude da brancura" (the magnitude of whiteness). It simply was a white canvass with a tiny little red dot at the center! In other words, despite the 'magnitude' of the white canvass what people really paid attention to was that silly insignificant 'smudge' always wondering what the heck that was all about!!... :-) Anyhow, I'll be long dead till I see *in public use throughout the US* any appreciable amount of REAL metric data. In the meantime the clock is still ticking (we have ~6-7 years left on our bet, Jim!... :-) ). Good to hear from you as usual though. Cheers, my dear friend. Marcus ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
