Thanks for the update Dick. I suspected that is what happened. It is extremely
hard to predict what the load is going to be on a new site/service. A few years
ago IBM blew it with their Olympic site... big time.
If you come across something like this in the future and don't want to post
it, please send me a copy.
Bryan
Dick J wrote:
>
> I'm sorry I posted this and will not do it again. It was not an internet
>hoax. I corresponded with the teacher. They thought they would get a couple
>hundred responses during the six weeks of the experiment. They had several
>thousand global responses in the first week and it became too overwhelimng of
>a project for the class. The project was cut short and the computer was
>programmed to give "sorry but thanks" responses, but it too got overwhelmed
>with more traffic than their software could handle.
> Sorry for the inconvenience,
> Dick J
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