Re: Very Odd Question

I have not run into this, but I would imagine that if most of their 
customers are in the U.S. they probably just expect a better response time 
from a U.S. server.
I doubt there are any legal problems with this, they just don't want all 
the communications going over the big pond.

-Stephen

At 05:03 PM 4/26/2000 , you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Don't I just ask the oddest questions?  Well, here's another one.
>
>This morning I was asked by someone in a foreign country to set up domain
>names and servers here in the states for them.  They would like to use the
>server I currently use.  What I don't understand is why they can't do that
>from the country they are in.  Wouldn't they be able to access the server's
>page themselves and set up their own accounts?  I gave them the address of
>the place and they still wanted me to do it.  Is it just a question of
>currency exchange?  Are there huge differences in prices between countries
>for server space?  I'm not terribly sophsticated about all this.  Is this
>even legal?
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Janet
>AnnieMation.com

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