microsoft explains. again.

Fri Jan 26 17:27:54 UTC 2001

> Ya know, I wonder if this really was a DoS attack or just an 
> overwhelming ammount of traffic from people trying to regain access 
> to the MS sites. That plus all of the car wreck lookie lous who tried 
> to access M$ sites as soon as the outage was announced. It would be 
> interesting to see some numbers....

As one press report mentioned, Billy ships his sw to default
to hitting their site at startup...so that when you break that,
lots-a-users are stalled dead..

Wonder if that's a factor...

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