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To: flatsville who wrote (9579)	12/29/1999 9:35:00 AM
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Ahhh...Here's the answer: From csy2k-- Is someone doing another term paper? Found this on TB2000 this morning. Tom Beckner ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Someone was using a robot to grab every page on this server and it was hammering my poor ancient Solaris box (167 MHz processors). (Actually there were SEVERAL people with robots hammering the machine at the same time. Somehow everyone got the same idea to archive the forum at once.) The file system was also full. So I had to shut off the most popular forums to let other users have a chance. As the author of photo.net I'm a bit humiliated that my service didn't hold up. On the other hand, it was built to support human beings talking to each other. The average human can't read 10 postings per second! So it isn't surprising that multiple simultaneous robots could overwhelm this machine. If you want the forum turned back on, send me a Quad Pentium from www.penguincomputing.com! Or a 10-year-old's Athlon 700 game machine! It is sad that small children have faster computers than MIT but that's life... Sorry, Philip Wednesday night around midnight

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