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if you look at NY state, you will see that the town Alfred has 86000 downnloads and a city as big as new york has 10000 downloads(1/8th)... I wonder if anybody

if you look at NY state, you will see that the town Alfred has 86000 downnloads and a city as big as new york has 10000 downloads(1/8th)... I wonder if anybody can explain that? Point to also consider is Alfred is a town with less than 10000 people and New York city has millions!

blickly 16y ago
Not only does Alfred, NY reportedly have more downloads than any other city in the world, or any other state in the US, but it currently has more downloads than any _country_ other than Germany and the US! I think this has got to be a bug of some kind. Any explanations?
- TillE 16y ago
  There are a couple of universities in town. Maybe somebody's mirroring script went crazy.
  - jbalogh 16y ago
    The logs showed all the downloads in Alfred were from curl. They've been removed from our stats.
jbalogh 16y ago
I don't know exactly what was going on, but we noticed that we were getting as much as 2,000 hits per minute from Alfred, NY. That IP is getting blocked by the load balancer now and I'm working on a way to remove that aberration from our stats.