Slammed By My Slammed By A Spammer Story?
from the oops dept
Ah, the chain of events. I put up my slammed by a spammer story yesterday morning. I sent a copy of it to Declan McCullough over at Politech, because he often writes about spam. He picked it up and put it on his Politech list this morning. A reader of that list, apparently submitted it to Slashdot where it was posted, and thousands of people came to Techdirt. We've been Slashdotted twice before, without much of a problem, but for some reason, this time hit us much harder. It wasn't a bandwidth issue, but we were maxing out on the number of simultaneous connections. We've boosted that number, which seems to have helped. Also, the traffic seems to have slowed as Slashdot finally posted another story. So, the site was pretty slow for a while, but should be better now... Sorry about all that.
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i'm with you, man..
so i feel for you, it's happened to me..
bri.. just bri.. i don't have email.. please god make it stop..
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But nobody thought the article worth publishing
Congratulations on the exposure.
Tim
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Slammed?
but you did attract a new reader :)
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