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PART of the argument against aimless forwarding is that it gums up precious bandwidth. In Europe, for example, it is rapidly becoming pointless to attempt to contact sites in the US during the afternoon as the rest of the world wakes up and logs on. Netropolitan wonders: how quickly are Web and FTP sites reaching crucial overload as more and more people try to use them simultaneously? And with the Net community growing at such a huge rate, how will they cope in a month’s time?