I was just cleaning out my inbox, and I just came across an email from a few days ago.

It's from the oztivo mailing list, one of the members is buying one of the new dvd burning models, and someone made a comment about having others camping on the lawn. Someone else then commented they'd already planned the road trip, and wanted the front lawn for their tent.

I replied and asked if the portaloo had been arranged, and if an extension cord would be available, this caused someone else to ask if broadband internet would also be available, and here is the email reply with answers to all the queries:

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There's good news and bad news.

There is no front (or back) lawn, but I'll move the car out of the carport
and you can make a cardboard city.

The permit for the portaloo was refused by North Sydney council on the
grounds of hygiene, theirs, not yours. Apparently unless I'm building
another butt-ugly block of overpriced 'lifestyle' apartments we can't have
one. Hacking a Tivo, even a 57H, does not count as freehold improvement.

Wireless broadband (b & g) is available in the carport and I can drop an
RJ45 with a hub on for those of you stuck in the 20th century.

I'll put a splitter in the cable coax and in the antenna cable so you can
have foxtel or FTA but you'll need your own STB.

I have one spare TV which I suggest be run on prison rules, if you don't
like the channel, you need to shank someone to get it changed. That should
keep arguments short and infrequent.

Anything else?
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I found it quite humerous, and didn't want it to get lost in the mailing list archives, which is why I've put it here, in case at some point someone wants to read it again, Google will probably find it here.