“The Central Applications Office (CAO) website is feeling the effects of a denial-of-service attack but Gav Reilly has scraped relevant CAO data that will help ease the distress. Over on the CAO website a polite notice advises, ‘Due to maintenance work, the CAO web site is currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience’. I wonder how many years will tick by before the CAO asks capable institutions to mirror their major database on peak days like today …” (more)
[Bernie Goldbach, Inside View, 23 August]