What does "slashdotted" mean?
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Slashdotted, aka "slashdot effect"...
From Wikipedia which is, as I've no doubt mentioned before, an excellent source for information of this sort if often questionable on political and economic matters:
The Slashdot effect is the term given to the phenomenon of a popular website linking to a smaller site, causing the smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic. The name comes from the huge influx of web traffic that often results from sites being mentioned on Slashdot, a popular technology news and information site. Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable – either their bandwidth is consumed or their servers fail to cope with the high number of requests.
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full at --
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdotted>
and Slashdot can be found at --
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