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Hi, I have noticed a couple of Universities cacheing quite heavily. Don't get me wrong I am NOT complaining. I am curious. What are the advantages of cacheing the servers of other Universities. Is it done for money, ie. to save on connection costs. I cannot see where the savings - if any - are going to be made as probably more traffic is put through by the act of cacheing itself. Is if for a speedier local delivery of service? Something else? ================= I can see the advantages of cacheing non-uk servers, eg. US based servers where we have to pay for the traffic we create and so on, or European servers where connections can be slow. If anyone can enlighten me :-) Ta. Charles ============================================== Charles Christacopoulos, Secretary's Office, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, (Scotland) United Kingdom. Tel: +44+(0)1382-344891. Fax: +44+(0)1382-201604. http://somis.ais.dundee.ac.uk/ Scottish Search Maestro http://somis2.ais.dundee.ac.uk/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%