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Subject:	Re: UKNM: RE: DIXONS - FREE SHARE
From:	Stefan Magdalinski
Date:	Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:31:52 +0100

Leigh Blue Caldwell wrote:
>
> > uh - it only launched on Thursday morning. Unless every single person who
> > went through the door at any of the Dixons chain's delightful stores went
> > home and immediately went online, that's a wee tad of a misreading of Need
> > To Know, I'd suggest.
> >
> > from NTK:
> >
> > "With rumours saying that by Thursday, they were up to 12,000 accounts with
> > 10 joining every *second*, Energis/Planet's apparent over-spec for 250,000
> > users by Christmas better stand up to the strain."
>
> I didn't read NTK last week, but my trusty Mental Arithmetic Device
> (not trademarked, patent not pending) indicates the following:
> 10 per second * 86,400 seconds per day = 864,000 users per day
> By 9 am Friday, this would be already 3.5 times the "by Christmas"
> figure. By now, there would be 3.75 million users and the UK Internet
> population would either be about doubled, or every one of them in
> possession of a spare account.
>
> Is it at all possible that this NTK item, unlike all the others, was
> intended in a vaguely humorous, ironic, exaggerated or tongue-in-cheek
> manner? No, silly idea.

10/sec = peak, not average, probably.

and Danny, I think this young lovely is calling you a liar.

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