At 12:44 22.1.1997 +0100, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:

wolf@pasteur.fr:

...

Free suggestion to european network providers (Ebone and Dante particularly as those 2 are getting a lot of our money, I mean public money) : save the money for a root server and spend it in decent connectivity.

How do you mean that Ebone gets a lot of "your" (public) money?

Is this politics-wg@ripe.net :-) To be frank, it's impossible to follow the routes money takes around the European Union but as long as the speaker counts as a citizen of the union, there is at least some fraction of the money that he/she is paying in taxes. This specially count for the countries that pay more to the EU than receive from there, where I think France is one of them. (not discounting others, like Germany, Finland, Sweden, etc...) Pete