The "stress test" seemed to work for me apart from when my son accidentally crashed the PC around 8.30.
However, I'm wondering whether 1,000 users (at most, cos some people seem to be unaware/not getting e-mails?) can really be considered high stress. I have no idea how many ntl customers use newsgroups, but I would've thought it would be measured in tens of thousands at least, so does stability with under 8,000 concurrent connections represent real room for growth? Maybe Bumpy could provide some info on this. Perhaps I'm talking cobblers?