[Gllug] Slashdotting

[Alistair Mann]

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Thus spaketh t.clarke on Tuesday 15 July 2003 9:21 am:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> 'probably due to slashdotting.....'
>
> Forgive mny ignorance; what's that ?

Named after the website at www.slashdot.org. 

The website is so popular, that any other websites linked to at 'slashdot' are 
immediately inundated with traffic. So In is the Undation that frequently the 
linked websites are unable to cope with the traffic: existing surfers are 
disconnected, further surfers are denied any access, and if the website pays 
per Gb bandwidth, it will see its bill rocket. The process is called 
slashdotting.

Similar things happen to sites linked from www.fark.com, where the same 
process is called 'farking'. "Behold", says the animation there, "The Power 
Of Fark!"

hth,
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Alistair
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