From d.gudlat@rpluss.com Tue May 02 03:52:29 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8867 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 10:52:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 2 May 2000 10:52:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO qg.egroups.com) (10.1.2.27) by mta1 with SMTP; 2 May 2000 10:52:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 30119 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 10:52:28 -0000 Received: from smtp.www-service.de (212.77.161.16) by qg.egroups.com with SMTP; 2 May 2000 10:52:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 20492 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 10:52:22 -0000 Received: from p3e9ebdec.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO frilix.rus.ger.com) (62.158.189.236) by smtp.www-service.de with SMTP; 2 May 2000 10:52:22 -0000 Received: from kipnis (kipnis.rus.ger.com [193.27.25.34]) by frilix.rus.ger.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA06817 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 12:49:29 +0200 Message-ID: <04a901bfb422$c492b560$22191bc1@rus.ger.com> Reply-To: "Daniel Gudlat" To: References: <4.2.2.20000501214024.00b28100@127.0.0.1> Subject: Re: [lojban] slashdot.org gives Lojban a push Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:40:00 +0200 Organization: R+S Reengineering und Softwaredesign GmbH MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 From: "Daniel Gudlat" la lojbab. cusku di'e > I just found out that Lojban was merely mentioned in a topic of discussion > on slashdot.org a few days ago. The result has been a phenomonal set of > hits (not to mention a discussion thread that was around 400K of download, > though relatively little of that was about Lojban). That's known as the "slashdot effect". Well, more correctly, the slashdot effect pertains to the downing of web servers that are well suited to the load normally imposed on them, when those servers get hit by a million geeks in one day after the site was mentioned in a slash dot front article. > The following, where I respond to Don Harlow, who told me about it, gives > the URL and the stunning hit numbers. If any significant percentage of > these turns to Lojban List subscriptions or book orders, we will shortly be > drowning in new people. Don't count on it, but it's entirely possible that the number of subscribers to the lojban list on egroups will double in the coming weeks... > [sound of jaw crashing through floor] > > I almost blew by this, since I did not have time to look at Web pages > tonight. But I looked at the site, and then I looked at our Web page > statistics. Then came the sound just mentioned. > > On April 29-30 some 7500 different sites looked at our Web pages, with a > total downloaded bandwidth of over 1 gig. This is about what we have been > getting in a year. And it is presumably going to continue today. Experience the power of slashdot, the /. Yeah! ;-) > Oh, kinda interesting is that the hits on the 29th came from 63 different > country domains, including such places as Christmas Island and Niue. Hmm, we may finally get a truly international audience on the list. This may prove interesting. Three cheers to slashdot if it really happens! > I am not sure I ever heard of slashdot.org before this. But > obviously a lot of people read it seriously. You betcha. It's THE geek site on the internet. And your comment above disproves the alleged geekiness of lojban: How can lojban be a geek language when the head of the LLG doesn't even know about /. ? Bye, -- Daniel "Gudy" Gudlat d.gudlat@rpluss.com No one pays me enough to speak for them, so I only speak for myself.