At 01:45 AM 9/12/98 , scott w wrote:

Maybe folks are not as interested as the press thinks.

Or maybe a lot of us mirrored it locally. I had the report and the President's response(s) up here around 2200 EDT the day it came out and so far something like 10-15% of our subscriber base has hit our local copy. Then add to that the increased use of caching these days (we run a small caching proxy server). Seems plausible to me that the traffic increased initially but fell off as the report got cached and mirrored locally. The servers had to have been a bottleneck, too. The LOC and CNN servers seemed to be doing reasonably well, but for a while the report was unavailable at LOC while they fixed errors in the footnotes. The Whitehouse servers/connections, which have never been stellar, seemed to have been hammered pretty badly at one point... -- Robert Szarka Managing Partner, Operations DownCity, LLC +1 860 823 3000