earlier versions of LW allowed you to select "regions" (like australia, uk, north america etc) which was intended (I'm guessing at least) to let you connect into particular parts of the world - I do recall reading Kath saying she found it useful for scoring hard to get files but I never personally found it did anything that I noticed at all

its always seemed to me that 'where' I was mostly connected (as judged by what comes up in search results) depended upon the time of day and what that meant in terms of time zones elsewhere

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