What has happened to the site?

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Is this the work of a hacker? What is going on?

-- tom (flstplt@yahoo.com), December 31, 1999

Answers

Multiple robots/spiders caused a shut down... some from people trying to download the archives. Some were simultaneous intentional DOS attacks. In addition to the troll spamming.

Phillip Greenspun has now moved us to new back-up servers.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 31, 1999.


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