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From: "Stephen Hayes" <>
Subject: 1901 census
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2002 09:09:14
References: <a0vvd5$h2c$1@news.tudelft.nl>


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Lesley Robertson wrote in a message to All:

LR> From: "Lesley Robertson" <>


LR> "marion philpott" <> wrote in
LR> message news:a0vqi0$1sp$1@paris.btinternet.com...
> I GIVE UP
>
> MARION
>
LR> No reason to shout at us!
LR> Going on Scots Origins experience, give it a couple of weeks and
LR> all will be fine. from the moment they gave the URL on all BBC news
LR> programmes this morning, the overload was inevitable.

We had a thing called Big Brother on TV last year, 12 people living in a house
together for 3 months, under the scrutiny of the outside world, and it was
broadcast on the Internet 24 hours a day. The first week it screwed up Internet
access for everyone - not just at that ISP, but others as well. Live video
broadcasts chew bandwidth, and the demand was enormous. After a week or so,
things settled down. People get bored of watching other people, and then only
the committed voyeurs stuck it out beyond that, and there was more bandwidth
for the rest of us.

Keep well

Steve Hayes
WWW: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/steve.htm
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