Subject: RE: Did OKC increase Web traffic? From: meyer@newslink.org Date: Sat, 22 Apr 95 00:31:57 PDT

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>Did the recent Oklahoma city bombing cause a significant increase in load on 
>servers that provide news content?

NewsLink hits and new-user registrations have quadrupled since the bombing.
I haven't checked whether our special bombing links were the main reason,
but I strongly suspect so. Interestingly, the journalist-to-nonjournalist
ratio of new user registrations did NOT change.

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ERIC K. MEYER                    meyer@newslink.org 
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