[Gllug] Slashdotting

Tue Jul 15 08:29:21 UTC 2003

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:21:12AM +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> 'probably due to slashdotting.....'
> 
> Forgive mny ignorance; what's that ?

"Slashdotting" or "/.ing", is a phenomenon that causes a site to go down
due to the sheer weight of accesses after a mention on slashdot or a
similar site.

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