This week, we:

• got 15,129 messages from 287 different IP addresses.
• handled 21,714 sessions from 1,659 different IP addresses.
• received 193,764 connections from at least 45,843 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 35 connections being checked at once.

Connection volume is down from last week .The highwater is much higher and was set sometime Thursday; beforethen we had the same highwater as

Disaster recovery planning is famously difficult, and not just becauseit's a hard subject. In fact there seems to be a kind of repulsion fieldthat makes people either shy away from thinking about it or dismiss itas something that they can't do anything about anyways. (The latter isthe 'if we have a serious fire the organization's dead anyways, so whyworry about the backups?' mindset.)

I've come to think that one significant reason for this is that when you

On Bots is a fascinating reporton a large scale experiment to see how web search bots would explorean almost limitless set of linked pages. Whether or not the resultsgeneralize (or are still applicable), it's got a bunch of prettypictures.

(From Tim Bray ,rather belatedly.)