PARANOIA OR REALITY??

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Hi Gang,

I've been gone for a while, lurking for a month, now I'm worried. I've been asking myself, - If I wanted to discourage this forum, how would I do it?. I'd make it hard to use. Uncomfortable. Slow. Question to the technical people here: is it possible to do this? Could one measure the activity here and when it reaches a certain point, decide to intervene? Am I just being paranoid or is this site inordinately difficult to use tonight?

cat

-- cat (ccordes@ashland.baysat.net), June 12, 1999

Answers

cat, if they wanted to discourage use of the forum they'd just shut it down, temporarily or permanently. I think some have already commented on how slow it is and I myself have been sent to the Server Busy page a few times, and earlier I couldn't get here at all. I think it has something to do with the increasing traffic. It's also likely that there is a congested area between the forum server and where it gets routed to before it gets rerouted to you and I. I wouldn't get too upset about it, probably just alot of weekend traffic on the WWW. Remember it's prime time right now on the West Coast and alot of these ISP's are based in California and that general region.

-- (workathome@atl.ga), June 12, 1999.

Hello my freinds, This thread will not garner much traffic but I wanted to put my 2 pennies in............This "site" is being hit more and more everyday... as we move toward 2000 I exspect traffic (here) to grow to an unmanagable level for the server and sysop. My point is you might want to develope some e-relationships to help you when it really matters. As always, their are many GI's out there who are able and willing to help in this area.....we will see who is sleeping and who's awake.....

Still too much vodka and O.J.... Got onions for my tuna-salad?

Mike

-- MidwestMike_ (midwestmike_@hotmail.com), June 13, 1999.


cat,

The short answer to your question is yes, but they'd have to be pretty damn good to keep doing it without getting locked out once the sysops figured out what was going on.

-TECH32-

-- TECH32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.COM), June 13, 1999.


Plus all the kids are out of school and on their computers. The entire web gets slower than molasses.

-- Taz (Tassie @aol.com), June 13, 1999.

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