TheHill.com: House limits constituent e-mails to prevent crash
“The [U.S. House of Representatives] is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill.”
At Word to the Wise, Laura Atkins reminds us that “This is similar to what some ISPs have to do under periods of peak load.”
It’s a technique (actually a variety of techniques) generally called “rate limiting” or “traffic shaping,” described fairly well by Desmond Liao in this article (MailChannels often talks like they think they invented these techniques, but, um, they didn’t. They do talk more openly about it than the ISPs who’ve been doing it for years, though.)
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