Never discount the Chicago Alinskyites and their Soros-funded allies.
Amish hackers.
It was cause by huge numbers of FReepers donating to the Freepathon.
Well, honestly.. “last night was the a DOS Attack”...
No, last night “was the a” against you specifically.
Nobody likes you and you “was the a” ought to just bail out.
And see JR's reply.
b) Yes, for whatever reason, the board was glacially slow last night.
c) Mash here for last night's post re the situation, from Jim.
I noticed for “peak times” like debates and elections, the server here is slow. No big deal.
It was cause by some video Jim up loaded on You Tube. ;-)
FWIW:
In USG parlance, DOS = Department of State!
Actually, as I pointed out last night and was barely able to post my opinion, enraging one semi-literate (since 1998) in the process, it was the stupid vanities about the slow response that caused it!
Maybe just some joking on this thread, but DOS stands for Denial of Service as well as MS DOS.
FWIW, Jim has always been reluctant to answer the question as to whether there has been a DOS attack. Presumably that’s to avoid encouraging hackers. It’s hard to believe that nasty lib hackers don’t do it from time to time, preferably when the site is most needed. But also, I imagine there were a ton of people showing up to discuss how the debate was going. This was about the only site that was available during the debate, since Drudge seems to hold back on evaluation until the debate is over, and few of the media sites can be trusted.
I was unable to get in several times, and then when I got in I could only get the first page of the debate discussion thread, but not the later ones, and then when I finally got that, I was unable to post anything. I imagine that that was one very busy thread.
As for the Forum format, personally I like it very much, and would be unhappy to see it changed. By contrast, Yahoo Groups FR2 is really clunky, as are most other discussion formats, IMHO. And FR stores and makes available huge amounts of information, unlike most sites which cut out all the older stuff to slim things down.
Certainly one solution would be for more people to donate. I know that times are very tough, but if more people gave at least a little, that would do the trick.
I don’t think Jim could use anyone else to host it, because the flying monkeys would put pressure on them to close it down, as they have done with other sites they dislike. And also because the identity of the users needs to be kept secret from outsiders, unless they choose to reveal it themselves for some reason, and I don’t think you can trust most hosts if, say, the FBI comes around to the back door and demands the data.
I've never forgiven myself for that.
Wish I knew.
All I know is that it was Hugh and Series, probably a stuned beeber!
It was all those cat people, again.
P-p-p-people try to put us d-d-d-down.
Chorus: T-t-t-talkin' 'bout our FReeper Nation.
Just because our site goes down.
Chorus: T-t-t-talkin' 'bout our FReeper Nation.
Hope I can post before I die.
Chorus: T-t-t-talkin' 'bout our FReeper Nation.
Got to expose another DemRat lie.
Chorus: T-t-t-talkin' 'bout our FReeper Nation.
Just talkin' 'bout our FReeper Nation.
It's our FReeper Nation, baby!
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