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Originally Posted by Hank
You think that BT might not also be looking at who the lurkers are? I bet they don't get an invite either!
On your point about a checklist... good idea. There ARE BT customers who are NOT lurking or posting here and are NOT posting on the BT forum who are waiting to receive the "Sacrifice Yourself To Our Webspy Cause" special page and they have my phone number  They are not family, not in my home town and I never call them from a land line at my house so no hope of BT black-listing them from the trial and one can only hope they are presented with an interception of their browsing to see the "Special Page"....
Hank |
It's anybody's guess whether BT will exclude anti-phormites or not. It's a sensible thing to do, but they don't always appear to do the sensible thing.
I believe BT have about 3 million users, so to sign up 10,000 is 1 in 300 of the customer base. If they do it on a single exchange and assuming the anti-phormites are randomly spread amongst the user base, the odds are the same.
In an ideal world, they would have to ask 300 people to get 1 to sign up, but that probably won't be the case
. The chances are we won't be able to get anyone inside the trial unfortunately. I hope i'm wrong.
One obvious thing to do to increase the chances would be to get online early in the morning of the first day of the trial. Try requesting a new IP etc.
Anyone have any other thoughts?