On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:41:40PM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote: Compare current NZ pricing (and purchase parity) with other countries instead. New Zealand is a wonderful country, it has many beautiful wondrous things to do and see, a fantastic life-style, many wonderful people and low cost of living. I'm very proud to have come from New Zealand, and, I am more than happy to talk for hours about what a wonderful place I come from to anyone here who will listen. Part of the reason New Zealand is such a bountiful and rich place is that has a low population density and it's comparatively remote compared to the rest of the world; as such various commodities such as bandwidth is more expensive. Deal with it. --cw - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog