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Re: Sony Barari's literary exploits/LISNEWS



Could we all do a colleague a favor by refraining from logging on to the
LISNEWS site for a couple of days?  The hits today reportedly totalled
45,000 by early afternoon.  Obviously, the more hits, the more possibility
for Carver to have continued problems with his service provider.  It's a
good site, and I know there's a lot of interest in the Barari story, but
let's hold off on visiting till this blows over.

Amy McCrory
Project Archivist
Cartoon Research Library
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH  USA


<snip>
>Library Journal Academic News Wire: March 12, 2002
>
>-----------------------------------------
>UCLA LIBRARY SLAM DOWNS LISNEWS
>Student Sony Barari says he was merely trying to be a good
>satirist when he ripped librarians in a recent article in
>the UCLA's student newspaper the DAILY BRUIN. But
>librarians reacted so strongly to his barbs that they
>crippled LISnews, Blake Carver's popular news and views web
>site for librarians. Carver says that traffic to his site
>tripled after posting the UCLA story, overloading his
>service provider, who suspended the site. "Normally we do
>about 1200 unique visitors on a weekday," Carver told the
>LJ Academic Newswire. "But since [Barari's piece] we've
>been seeing double and triple that, even on the weekend."
>Carver, however, said he's not angry with his server for
>derailing LISNews, "I'm not mad at them for shutting me
>down, they have a lot of other clients on that server, and
>it's important I don't slow things down for hundreds of
>other sites."

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