> >There are plenty of programs out there that can do that, both intentionally > >and "unintentionally". wget on *nix and cygwin has a total mirror option, > >which will download every single thing on a website. Then there are other > >things like some browsers have an option to reload a page every X number of > >seconds, which can do it. > >Then there are the hax0ring tools that intentionally run up the bandwidth > >of various sites. Unfortunately, DoS attacks are something more and more > >sites are having to put up with these days. > >Scott > > But I don't understand how they could do that without running up > earthlink's hit counter. > > Gamba
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