[IamConservative]

I’m a switch tech, and lemme tell ya, it takes A LOT to crash a system..

There are a fixed number of lines going into and out of every phone system. Based on 25 years experience with these systems, there are only four plausible explanations: 1) As configured, the phone system is failing before all trunks are busy which is a design issue. 2) The system failed for a reason unrelated to call volume, i.e. it's a coincidence. 3) The system recording voice mails ran out of disk space. 4) They intentionally shut the incoming trunks down.

[upchuck]

I vote for number four.

And if that turns out to be true, that’s just on more nail in their coffin come election time.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

OR the volume overloaded the processor (which may be the case)