[IWE] House web site totalled by bailout traffic

Jay Mehaffey iwe@warhead.org.uk
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:22:57 -0700 (PDT)


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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/30/congress.website/index.html
>The servers hosting the Web sites of the House of Representatives and
its
>members have been overwhelmed with millions of e-mails in the past
few
>days, forcing administrators to implement the "digital version of a
traffic cop"
>to handle the overload -- for the first time ever.
They carefully avoid any suggestion of which side the email storm favored,
but the load level set new records. If they where as loaded as this suggests
they might not be able to tell really, since there is no telling how much
traffic got dropped or bounced.

It is interesting though that this has generated way more traffic then
anything else.

Jay


      
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<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/30/congress.website/index.html<br>&gt;The servers hosting the Web sites of the House of Representatives and
its<br>&gt;members have been overwhelmed with millions of e-mails in the past
few<br>&gt;days, forcing administrators to implement the "digital version of a
traffic cop"<br>&gt;to handle the overload -- for the first time ever.<br>They carefully avoid any suggestion of which side the email storm favored,<br>but the load level set new records. If they where as loaded as this suggests<br>they might not be able to tell really, since there is no telling how much<br>traffic got dropped or bounced.<br><br>It is interesting though that this has generated way more traffic then<br>anything else.<br><br>Jay<br><br></div></div><br>

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