In The Netherlands, Internet (not UUCP, but IP-based service) was simply not affordable until the mid-to-late nineties. Demon, too, started off as an UUCP provider- I worked with Cliff :) A lot of politics were involved too, at least in The Netherlands. Even right now, if you not an organization or a company, you *cannot* get a domain in the .nl space, and several other totally BS rules. (I got my Trailblazer UUCP link straight into the U.S. in 1988, because we were denied a connection by NLnet (aka UUNET aka WorldCom.) For regular people, I doubt one could get a decent and affordable conn in 1992 in the UK, Pete. Thats why Cliff started doing UUCP first :) --fred