Roger Wright wrote: Let's not be giving the Thought Police any more silly ideas, okay? I don't think it'll be much of a problem - given that it seems you need 800Mb to transmit a human genome sequence, you'd have to increase the MTU of an IP packet *way* beyond a few thousand bytes to do it :-D See: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=7dv57v%24ka2%241%40news.panix.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26as_qdr%3Dall%26q%3Dbytes%2Bto%2Bstore%2Bhuman%2BDNA%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg[^] -- Ian Darling "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky