On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:13:30 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
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>__/ [Hans van Eynsbergen] on Tuesday 30 August 2005 08:16 \__
>
>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:21:44 GMT, kyra, after pondering on life, the
>> Universe and everything, checking the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
>> we now know to be Usenet, decided to scribble :
>>> Well its official.. as of this afternoon that is.
>>> I got slashdotted!
>>>
>>> heheh ok, so its OT and not a big deal... but im excited :)
>>> It even made the front page!
>>>
>>>
>http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/26/1739234&tid=187&tid=126&tid=4&tid=218
>>
>> Congrats to our lovely girl !
>> w00t !
>
>I read that one yesterday! Congrats!
>
>Being Slashdotted, however, does not warrant much traffic. When a page of
>mine was in the front page, it was Sunday morning, a very specific (not
>broad) subject so I had 2000 visits that day, only half of which attributed
>to Slashdot. Some people meantion figures like 50,000 visits (assuming the
>server endures of course).
>
>Roy
I think if I was ever Slashdotted I'd block all incoming traffic that
originated from redirects from their server (assuming one or more of
my sites was listed with it).
--
Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
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