"William Pietri" <william(a)scissor.com> wrote in message
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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