>> >> > > Haha - that's a huge part of Netrek history that you are speaking > about > influencing! :-) > > mark > > P.S. I somewhat fondly remembers the days when I was 13 or so, and I > would visit my father's work to play Netrek on his Sun 4. It was a > work-only Netrek server, and outsiders did not have firewall access > in. > It was busy non-stop throughout the day for at least a year before > they > finally restricted hours to 12pm-1pm and 4pm->8am. It was then VERY > busy > at those times, with a wait queue of 20+. Hahaha.... > I remember the sysadmins bursting in my office when the backbone started to crumble under 40% load caused by my harmless series of clients that were running. I managed to convince them it was a load test that went out of control, i even came up with explanation of the word netrek in relation to network, tracking and something else :-) those were the days! regards C