Smoke and Mirrors!

Nothing more than smoke and mirrors to hide the fact that there product
needs major improvements.

John Brown

Sheryl Trexler wrote:

>Given the recent discussions of problems with grants.gov, this was in
>the Federal Register today and I thought it might be of interest.
>
>
>On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, the Grants.gov website was the target of
>a ``denial of service attack.'' Over the next 35 hours that the attack
>was underway, Grants.gov experienced a significant degradation in
>performance. The processing capacity degraded by this attack, coupled
>with a high volume of application submissions, rendered the Grants.gov
>website almost inaccessible during certain times between Tuesday, May
>17, 2005 and Thursday, May 19, 2005. Information regarding the attack
>can be obtained at
>http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/denial_of_service.html#1
>
>
>
>Sheryl Trexler
>Funding Information Officer
>Office for Research & Sponsored Projects Admin.
>Arizona State University
>
>xxxxxx@asu.edu
>
>
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