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George Worley wrote:

> In article <dorfmanEzCy7E.622@netcom.com>
> on Wed, 16 Sep 1998 03:40:26 GMT, dorfman@netcom.com (Merlin Dorfman)
> wrote:
>
> >We noted in RISKS-19.95 that many sites mirrored the Starr report soon after
> >it was released.  As a consequence, although Net traffic was very high,
> >individual sites were not affected too dramatically -- except for the three
> >government sites (loc.gov, house.gov, and gpo.gov), which were so saturated
> >that they were effectively nonexistent.  Once again, there was a beneficial
> >effect from not putting all of the eggs in one basket.
>
> But it doesn't say how it affected businesses around the country...
> for instances, the main router on JSC/NASA's firewall was brought down
> from all of the traffic JSC/NASA had out bound looking for it.
> JSC/NASA has a huge bandwidth and it was consumed.  On Monday, a 1.4
> MB file that would have normally took less then a minute to download
> took most of the day and the file was able to be downloaded 'til
> Tuesday.   The report and several of the companies that my company
> deals with Internet monitors were going off because of it containing
> the words sex and several other references to sexual acts.  At home, I
> wasn't able to get to the House (www.house.gov) web site until
> Tuesday.
>
> George

  And people wondered why NASA policy prohibited downloading the Starr Report.

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