<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Speaking as one whoworks for a company that handles the types of numbers they're looking to get for downloads in a single day most days of the week, there are only a handful of infrastructures around the world that can handle what they were trying to accomplish. </div><div><br></div><div>The question was never going to be whether they became unavailable, just when.</div><div>--j</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jun 17, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Jon Reagan wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I can't even get to the firefox site. It's annoying, but at the same time,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">very, very good.<br></blockquote><br>Really, I think it's inexcusable. When you're attempting to set the<br>world record for most downloads in one day, you should have the<br>infrastructure to handle the traffic.<br><br>-Brian<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>