On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:30:04PM -0700, Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:04:46PM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > Some of you may have noticed that poll on the UUG site was was slammed > > by candidates, or their minions, using bots to vote. Only one candidate > > bothered to include a rate limit to prevent DOSing the server. That > > candidate? Derek "goozbach" Carter. > > > > Sco++ was even more polite. He simply edited the database directly. No > load on the server at all.
not exactly true... there was still a bot voting for him... about 50-100 times each second... there was still a good bit of load on the server, albeit somewhat less as the db was not trying to handle those requests... -- Erin Sharmahd [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS Student Unix Users Group PGP Fingerprint: F352 FF41 EA0A 67E4 566B 3B5B E65A D3DC 083E 9336
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