Twas but a few hours of april fools joke. I couldn't let other's scripts have all the fun. The UUG server was crippled long before and after I started a little sciprt.
Also to quote slashdot: " # Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks. # This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, _ballot stuffers_, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane. " On Apr 2, 2005 8:13 PM, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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... > > It's true! That was the evil Adam Findley! He had many many instances > of the bot running at the same time. See my previous post in this > thread. > > Vote for me, I'm nice and bot-less! > > -- > Michael Moore > ------------------------------- > www.stuporglue.com > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
