Yep, it mentions that in the full news article at the link listed with the excerpt I posted here. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lisa Selk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is basically what happened to Yahoo (and a bunch of other "big sites") > earlier this year, right. In a nutshell, someone writes a little program > (similar to massing old fashioned "ping attacks") - which send huge amounts > of "requests" to the site(s) in question - causing them to 'crash' until the > 'traffic' lets up. Right? > From: "Zeuce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Rest of article can be read at: > > http://uk.news.yahoo.com/001230/80/au0ic.html ---- post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://theMezz.com/informant forum: http://theMezz.com/bbs subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] notDigest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
