I'm writing this article "live", so to speak. I was routinely checking my logs a few minutes ago and I noticed page after page of requests for the same file. Actually I noticed that every time I clicked to the next page the total number of pages would have gone up by one so I'd actually be viewing the same page!

First thought was "what the hell's going on here?". A nano-second later I'd opened up two tabs in my browser. One was directed to news.google.com, in the other I idly entered slashdot, CTRL-ENTER, "just on the off-chance". Results for Google News appeared first ...and there it was, the only result, I'd been "Slashdotted", via peopleaggregator.com

Actually I'd noticed something slightly amiss two hours before. There were a flurry of reuests for this file followed by about twenty requests all from the same IP, all with no referrer or agent. However I didn't follow up on the trail...

Anyway now I've downloaded my logs (well the fifty two pages that were there when I spotted this phenomenon) and I'm proceeding to analyze the data. The logs already contain country data which is quite interesting, now I'm proceeding to further disect this ...

Latest update: all requests have ceased; peopleaggregator went tits up ten minutes ago.

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