Some political action groups probably decided to step up the astroturfing. You know, enter your email address here and we'll send out some boilerplate nonsense to a bunch of congressmen and senators.
Block or firewall the worst of them, whether left or right leaning, and I guess that should leave the servers clear for real users ... --srs On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Ernie Rubi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, just musing... > > From an ops perspective, wonder just how much traffic caused: > > "This morning, our engineers sounded the alarms ... and we have installed a > digital version of a traffic cop. We enacted stopgaps that we planned for > last night. We had hoped we didn't have to." > --Jeff Ventura, communications director for the House's chief > administrator. (from > http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/30/congress.website/index.html) > > Don't .govs have enough b/w or at least ability to add b/w in order to > satisfy their 'public outreach/information' role? (not a rhetorical > question...hehe) > > It also seems to me that adding load balancing, firewall, throttling, etc > methods for traffic shaping might actually make the problem worse by adding > yet another layer(s) of hardware/software that may be prone to bottlenecking > or overloading. > > whaddayathink? > > Ernie M. Rubi > Network Engineer > AMPATH/CIARA > Florida International Univ, Miami > > > > > > > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
