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Originally Posted by RoboTIP
I am extremely disappointed and personally offended that the fact that this student is from India intensified the belief that the site was a hoax.
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Nobody said anything about the site owner's nationality. The main "proof of a hoax" seemed based on the impossibly short deadline, the fact that other pages on the site also asked for personal information, and the lack of obvious identification on the original email. I think it's reasonable to expect that official communication from FIRST would come from an official FIRST source, not from an AOL address.
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...the problem was not one of bandwidth...
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No?
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Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
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Without looking at the server logs, it seems plausible that this was just the "slashdot effect" of having a URL published in a spot where a large number of curious people see it all at once.