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To: Don Earl who wrote (739)	5/31/2003 11:35:04 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Don, Re: In general I chalk it up to my observation that our latest and greatest cutting edge technology is a lot like a 10+ year old car. Some days it just seems to run better than it does the rest of the time, and other days it doesn't run well at all. I suspect the SI servers are simply suffering from a couple too many kludges used to bandaid the system. Added to that, the backbone of the Internet has become astonishingly convoluted over the last few years. For instance, when I do a 'trace route' to SI, I find that there are 18 hops between my box and the SI server. That's at least 3 times what it would be in a well designed system. IDEAL ROUTE: Bend, OR -> Boise -> Salt Lake City -> Denver -> Kansas City -> SI Actual Route: Spaghettini....