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- -- Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>> "It's exceeding all our expectations," said spokeswoman Abby Lunardini,
>> who didn't have specific figures on how many bookings were made by day's
>> end. 
>>
>> She said the airline's Web site began to slow around noon, making it
>> difficult for users to purchase tickets online. The airline directed
>> users to call its toll-free number.
>
>Are "hackers" just the fall guy for the airline IT department failing to
>provide enough server capacity to handle the "flash crowd" effect?

Apparently so. :-)

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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