Alexey Loukianov wrote: > Not sure for the rest of world, but here in Russia the knowledge of > english is one of the main things checked when hiring someone on > system administrator or programmer position. Not always > free-spoken-level is required, but at least > read-of-techdocs-and-abuse-repots level. ;-) Agreed. English is the Lingua Franca of the Internet. Any ISP that cannot master English at some basic level is not worth a grain of salt. I would not hestitate the least to send an email in English to any abuse/webmaster/postmaster or similar standard email addresses. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: morten at mortent.org //IM: Cartoon at jabber.no morten.torstensen at gmail.com And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever.