At 12:01 -0400 18/10/02, air-l-request@aoir.org wrote:

So lesson is clear files from browsers and force a cold boot from public/commercial terminals when you are finished using.

sorry. the lesson is to realise that the rest of the world subsidises US access costs to the internet (due to inequities in how costs are charged via the ITU), and that when you are a guest in another country you are a guest in another country. my experience of the dutch during AoIR was of overwhelming politeness, interest, curiosity and courtesy (it is the only country i have visited so far where nearly every commercial (restaurant. hotel, taxi) conversation began with "where have you come from?" and they really wanted to know. cheers adrian miles -- + lecturer in new media and cinema studies [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog] + interactive desktop video developer [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] + hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [http://www.intermedia.uib.no]