Someone is using a robot to grab every page on this server?greenspun.com : LUSENET : TimeBomb 2000 (Y2000) : One Thread |
HUH? What does that mean? And I am assuming it is why I cannot read anything, probably won't be able to read this, either.
-- preparing (preparing@home.com), December 29, 1999
Preparing, what it means is that several people were attempting to copy the entire website and all links at the same time. It is a robotic process using specific software. A site this large would probably take in the neighborhood of 3-9 hours to copy...thus you have a bad logjam due to people wanting to preserve all of the information found on this website on their hard drives.Nothing nefarious going on.
-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), December 29, 1999.
I feel that whoever did this certainly knew it would bring the site to crash and timed it with others to bring the crash about.
-- Carol (glear@usa.net), December 30, 1999.