"William Pietri" william@scissor.com wrote in message news:4B7A141E.9000808@scissor.com...
On 02/15/2010 07:25 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
Was there some urgent production impact that required doing this with no notice?
Ok. I'm going to take that as "no".
As best I understand the discussion in #wikimedia-tech last night, ~20% of search server load was being taken by aforementioned spamvertisers. That sounds like an "urgent production impact" to me.
--HM