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::Local trolls are the best trolls. But no, there were several repeated and intense attacks in which the vandalbot changed the titles of pages to random ones, and then blanked them, making it quite difficult to restore pages and links. There were at least two such attacks, and these plus the "undoing" of the vandalism increased the traffic. It was probably a third attack that made Recyclopedia exceed its bandwidth limit - thus it was, legally, a [[denial of service attack]]. | ::Local trolls are the best trolls. But no, there were several repeated and intense attacks in which the vandalbot changed the titles of pages to random ones, and then blanked them, making it quite difficult to restore pages and links. There were at least two such attacks, and these plus the "undoing" of the vandalism increased the traffic. It was probably a third attack that made Recyclopedia exceed its bandwidth limit - thus it was, legally, a [[denial of service attack]]. | ||
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Looks like [[Wikipedia]] is getting what it deserves - [[blowback]] from the same tactics "Wikipedians" used against [[Recyclopedia]]:[http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-June/013617.html] | |||