[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia timing out

Sat Oct 4 18:51:15 UTC 2003

--- Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 20:39, James Duffy wrote:
> > Wiki is getting increasingly frustrating to use. I have gone
> through three 
> > browsers and each in turn has had to be abandoned because wiki is
> so slow 
> > any attempt at contact times out. Since the new logo was
> introduced the 
> > situation has become impossible. Is it a co-incidence already
> existing 
> > problems have become even worse since our new large logo was
> introduced?
> 
> Hmm, let me think -- is it a miniscule increase in bandwidth usage?
> 
> Or is it more likely to be related to a complete rebuild of the
> system
> with new parts which haven't been thoroughly tested and some of
> which
> don't fit right and are temporary until new bits can be bought?
> 
> It's *gotta* be the logo. Yeah. Must be it.

Made me think of an interesting way of slowing down vandals and such:
 Throttle bandwidth on their IP to verrry slow...   

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Christopher Mahan
chris_mahan at yahoo.com
818.943.1850 cell
http://www.christophermahan.com/

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