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From: (Steve James)
Subject: RE: [Lon] 1901 Census
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:23 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
In-Reply-To: <MABBLHGJAKHHGKEHNNHJIECFDGAA.kate.martinson@cwcom.net>


According the PRO web site they have set the system up to handle 1 million people each day but peaked at 1.2 million within the first few hours.
Hence most people appear to be having problems. But what the heck just think how the PRO and their partners feel.
1 million visitors per day; lets be conservative and say 10% order further details @ 50p = 50,000 lost every day so far!
They could have easily set up a mirror data centre for that!

I also notice that the Family Records Centre are not getting a copy of the fiche. When they combined the GRO and the PRO sites I thought is was to provide a single
location for information. Now they are splitting it again. Why? Money.

I'm going to write to my MP and request that income from the 1901 census project is used to reimburse us the public for the cost of the 2001 census, after all at some
time in the future our descendants will have to fork out to check out the indexes!

Steve James http://www.steeljam.dircon.co.uk/

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