> I should really look who's talking before I plunge into a message. See, in America, those numbers would be written 50,000, 15,000, and 25,000, and the "." is used as a decimal point.

You're right, I forgot. Usually I take care about symbols conversion because I know that sometimes using European standards may lead to funny misunderstandings.

Anyway, if you'll read the trade unions agreement for the newsprint industry here in Italy, you'll find that national newspapers must employ 1.54 people for each page of products.

I live in an odd country...

AP.