710 Kiro (710kiro.com) in Seattle Wa had an interview with someone who claimed to be representing truemajority.com (one of the organizations performing the virtual protest). His claim was that they desired to take down the internet servers/jam the phone lines if they could, but most of their communication would be fax machine to fax machine. The fax approach is probably better than sending off thousands of emails and being blocked (eventually). Anyway, the traffic would have been spread out to the representatives in all of the states with a single exception of one message per X participants copies going to the whitehouse. Thus, it probably wouldn't have been as noticable as the media might like it to appear as. -j On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Russell, David wrote: : Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:24:10 -0500 : From: "Russell, David" <DRussell@thrupoint.net> : To: nanog@merit.edu : Subject: Re: In case you didn't notice: Virtual protest : : : So, we have a denial of service attack under way against the government. I : am not sure whether this is good or bad. Generally, the less the government : does the better off we are. : : David Russell : CCIE #5751 : : : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine" <brunner@nic-naa.net> : To: "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine" <brunner@nic-naa.net> : Cc: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>; <nanog@merit.edu>; : <brunner@nic-naa.net> : Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:12 PM : Subject: Re: In case you didn't notice: Virtual protest : : : > : > My partner tells me that WH, Senate, and House in-bound voice has had load : > above capacity for some of the day. The call volume is in excess of 10^^6. : -- - Jeremy Dinsel - somewhere in the monkey house