>Today we are having heavy snow and can I get on the nationrail web site to check informtion. No way.
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>When a lot of people want to look at the same information at the same time the internet is as much use as a chocolate teapot.
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>Nick
The same happened when some information about President Clinton (from the U.S.) become public - lots of people wanting this information; servers, and perhaps Internet backbones, became overloaded. Or when the Twin Towers were attacked.
There are some "multicast" technologies that allow the same information to be sent to multiple people simultaneaously (sharing the same connection as long as possible), but this seems more appropriate for live webcasts (is that the correct term?) than for looking up information from Web sites, which people will not do completely simultaneaously.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
