Re: microsoft explains. again.

On 1/25/01, Marc Slemko wrote:

Hmm... sounds... umh... "interesting". And certainly something that others could benefit from knowing the details of, at an appropriate time.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Jan01/01-25WebSitePR.asp says:

<snip> Ya know, I wonder if this really was a DoS attack or just an overwhelming ammount of traffic from people trying to regain access to the MS sites. That plus all of the car wreck lookie lous who tried to access M$ sites as soon as the outage was announced. It would be interesting to see some numbers.... -- BillT@Mahagonny.com | PGP KeyID#: 0xFB966670 -By the year 2019, one third of the worlds population will be Elvis impersonators.