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Offline Orjan

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Re: Amiga.org Slashdotting?
« on: December 22, 2004, 03:17:31 PM »

I asked myself the same thing before I looked it up... :-)

It´s an expression for when a server has been recieving so much traffic that the server(s) can´t cope with the load, so they go down, or become unavaliable... Hence the term "slashdotted"...

Or something... :-)
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