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Surprisingly High Traffic
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:23:12 GMT
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To my big surprise, I recieved this mail from civics@geocities.com
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" Dear GeoCities Member,
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" Your web site, http://www.geocities.com/simlego
" seems to have been receiving a large amount of traffic.
" Our records indicate that you're using more than the allotted amount
" of data transfer we provide for a free web site, which is 3 gigabytes
" per month (measured on an hourly basis). That means that during the
" past few days we had to temporarily turn your site off to keep the
" bandwidth within this limit.
< snipped offers to pay for allowing more traffic >
Since I hardly ever upload anything to that page anymore, I don't understand
its sudden popularity. I thought that those of you who like my scans have
grabbed them a long time ago. And I doubt that my Inliner (179 kb) is that
popular either, as there have been other inliners available for ages.
...or is it just a new way for yahoo/geocities to make more money?
Does anybody have a clue?
/Tore
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Surprisingly High Traffic
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| (...) I had the same message from them back in November relating to a dead page I once posted. I had a traffic monitor on the page, it indicted that it had had a total of 442 hits since I uploaded it: (URL) had had six hits in the 6 months up to the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Surprisingly High Traffic
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| (...) [snip] Heh. I get those all the time -- I suspect it happens everytime someone downloads a copy of LDAO (before I moved the download off of Geocities). It's a 2MB file, which *seems* like it would be under the limit. Yahoo! has apparently (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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