DH->> It'd never hit the net.  That would be common enough to always be in
DH->> the local cache of whatever ISP server you happened to be on.

NB> I realise that.  But even if 1000 house holds in a suburb turn on their 
NB> systems say between 6-7pm..... that type of work load would slow down any 
NB> system....

Sure would.  Even from local cache, it's still a heckofa lot of serial I/O,
that's basically non-statistical.  Bogs an ethernet rather badly when a
bunch of Windows ex Server bods fire up, and that's on a 10 Mhz cable, not
a serial line.

Regards,
Dave Hatch.

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