@Rik Hemsley

"What is this perfectly good word processor? I'd love to use it. I haven't ever used a half-decent one."

I think it's called WordPerfect 7.0

Same Here

I've had just one spam message in the last three weeks or so - down from 10-15 a day. I'm starting to feel like nobody loves me...

So what?

Nothing stopping you from having a Google account that you don't use for anything other than YouTube is there?

Or do Google somehow link multiple accounts together? They can't assume all Google accounts which access from the same computer (never mind the same IP address) belong to the same person.

@Worldwide perspective

You misunderstand the terminology of dark fibre.

Typically, owning (or leasing) dark fibre means that you own or lease the entire capacity of the fibre; you are responsible for "lighting it up" with your terminal equipment and you have complete use of and control over the entire bandwidth of the link. You get to decide what protocols are used and you can leave the links idle or max them out 24/7.

This, as opposed to renting bandwidth (guaranteed or not) on a virtual link on somebody else's network, where they provide the terminal equipment, etc and you may share the link with other customer's data and you may pay a variable rate according to your bandwidth utilisation profile.

@ I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

Shame on you. I-can't-believe-you-are-such-a-pedant...

...when you don't even check your own facts.

The phrase is "hoist with your own petard", so you're both wrong.

Google is your friend (or used to be, anyway).

POD???

I would have thought that *all* data centres are "performance optimised" - well aren't they?

Should have called it "Space Optimised Data - Orientated For Failure"