On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Zeb Haradon wrote:
> I've read about this too.. but everyone is not in the same time zone.. it
> won't be 12:01 everywhere at the same time, everyone won't pick up their
> phone at the same time.
> But I guess even 1 out of 24 of 6 billion is still a lot of phones.
>
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Ok, the point is raised, you don't want to call your "local" computer/operator just after midnight. However that says nothing about initiating a call 10 minutes before "local" midnight and hanging onto it for 20 minutes. What is needed is a hub to manage the traffic.
Dial-tone is your local carrier problem. It says nothing about the world-net capacity. I have seen nothing that makes me believe that at midnight or shortly thereafter, calls will be terminated. Phone companies don't terminate calls -- they are making money off of them.
Natasha is right, we need a schedule -- who will call whom who is willing to talk to the collective "whoms" at specific timepoints (if you don't have a cell-phone, get one, I can't think of anything other than a life threatening emergency that would justify it more). You want to be in it for the whole cycle. I'll admit 24 calls in 24 hours might get tedious, but every four hours or so and it could be a blast. That being the case, I think we have to lean on Damien (or another gregarious Aussie [do they even come in non gregarious forms?] to start it off...
A rhowdy chorus in the background (with strange kind of Texan accents breaks into song):
Ding dong, LA is dead
LA, *fahnallllly* is dead
R.