Language Log is slashdotted

[Sam Clements]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Sheidlower" <jester at PANIX.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: Language Log is slashdotted



> Slashdot, http://slashdot.org , a website devoted to tech news
> and discussions thereof. When Slashdot mentions another site,
> that site tends to get a huge amount of traffic, so quickly
> that it can overwhelm the target site, sometimes causing it to
> crash or at least become unavailable. This is called "getting
> slashdotted".
>
> Jesse Sheidlower

Maybe someone could slashdot Barry and his site, and he might not come up
for air for weeks!

SC
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