On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:54:50PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 07:14, Malte Steiner wrote: > > Its a good idea but they need stronger servers. It seems they are > > slashdotted. > Um, the problem is not their servers. The problem is the twit who > posted the article to slashdot without getting the webmaster's OK. > People do not submit their own pages to be on slashdot, they get > submitted by others, usually without the server operator's knowledge or > consent. You cannot expect every web server to be able to handle the > slashdot effect, this is insane. > If someone submitted a slashdot article about me and included a link to > my 'web server' which is just my desktop machine, then I certainly would > not 'need a stronger server'. The jerk who posted the story without > asking me would need a LART. Or more correctly, _you_ would need a LART with which to adjust the lusers attitude. :) -Eric Rz.
