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Jon Bennett wrote:
>> We had four phones on the go re-dialling to always engaged tone, and
>> continuous re-writing of the booking webpage (refresh only served back
>> the busy page).
>>     
>
> there were 3 of us all trying phones and net at the same time, ended
> up getting a friend of one of the groups boyfriend in london to do it,
> which they managed without too much fuss, 3 times no less! anyone else
> think there was some regionality to this? (think there was a couple of
> years ago as well, south west got stiffed!)
>
> j
>
>   
well, there's probably something to that. i heard the internet in the 
southwest was mostly powered by pit ponies, zoider and pegshat. in the 
southeast it's powered by the burned-out corpses of hyper stressed 
middle management.

rx