It is probably a DOS attack from some demented asswipe who doesn't like FFL for some reason or another. Perhaps I should do a tantric ritual to make their fingers fall off. :-D
Those are easy to do with with an open group. When I had a group I don't recall Yahoo providing any analytics and I suspect they still don't. If you moved the group to Google you might have those plus Google might punt any DOSers. Years ago I had a DOS attack on my Earthlink site. In that case I did have a log to refer too and Earthlink who could have charged me for overages didn't. They instead probably billed the college where the attack came from (it was over Christmas break) and the college probably booted the student. I've only seen the message once and that was last night checking my email at 8 PM and since I got no messages from FFL checked the web site and that banner was there. Apparently the quota roles over at midnight PDT. On 07/29/2012 04:33 AM, iranitea wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "marekreavis" <reavismarek@...> wrote: >> Buck, who do you believe it is that follows FFL so avidly and who we would >> be surprised do? >> >> *** > Marek, there are more lurkers than you think, as there are also many inactive > members, many just don't want to participate in fights or expose themselves > to the public, so they don't post. > > But apart form that, FFL very frequently tops Google searches for very > special search terms. Obviously people are not interested in the kind of > quibbles some here have specialized in, but there are still interesting > topics coming up, with some, I think quite sophisticated input. > > I have checked access to the group, when not being logged in, and access to > other public Yahoo groups, I am not a member of, and it seemed there was no > problem in the other groups, but one would have to test this a little more. > That bots can play a role is obvious, as there are sometimes captchas coming > along with Google searches, especially if there are a lot of searches coming > from one IP. This is to filter out bots. > > Logging in would be one means by Yahoo to ensure it is not an automated > request. Bot activity is obviously quite common and widespread in the > internet, so it does not mean that it is necessarily directed against FFL in > particular, OTOH it cannot be excluded, whoever says the opposite is lying. > > As we have a mirror site, it would be easy for lurkers to go just there, if > they only knew, not so likely if they are coming from Google search. Maybe > the mirror site should be mentioned in the intro text, of course one would > have to ensure it is not against Yahoo policies. > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: >>> >>> >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: >>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" >>>> <anartaxius@> wrote: >>>>> Is there some reason people are interested in us? >>>> Not bloody likely. :-) >>>> >>> Dear Mr.Turguoiseb, I would respectfully disagree with your (narrow) POV on >>> this. >>> I found the recent discussion of SSRS's instruction on silent awareness >>> during meditation versus the other brand meditation to be particularly well >>> drawn out on both sides. It was very interesting. I would suspect that >>> both interested parties, camps of SSRS-AOL'ers and MMY-TM'ers, were >>> downloading the proceedings like crazy following through the discussion >>> that discerned some very interesting spiritual nuance. It was very >>> interesting indeed and certainly drove readership. There were some other >>> subjects too during the period which evidently drove FFL downloads by >>> non-member lurkers. This new 'exceeding download' error message seems to >>> revolve around periods of content driven downloads. Unless these were >>> denial of service downloads, we should expect now that Yahoo in its >>> liquidation would sell FFL as an asset that actually drives content views. >>> You'd be amazed who all the audience of this place is. Some writers would >>> be embarrassed if they realized. >>> -Buck >>> > >
