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September 30th, 2008
Posted: 03:35 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The servers hosting the Web sites of the House of Representatives and its members have been overwhelmed with millions of e-mails in the past few days, forcing administrators to implement the “digital version of a traffic cop” to handle the overload — for the first time ever. “This is unprecedented,” said Jeff Ventura, communications director for the House’s chief administrator. The tidal waves of e-mails and page views began over the weekend after negotiators announced Sunday that a deal had been reached on legislation to enact a $700 billion bailout of the country’s financial system. Legislators said the public could view the agreement at financialservices.house.gov. “In a short period of time, lots of Web users were rushing to the digital doorway to get a copy of this thing,” Ventura told CNN in a phone interview. That resulted in many of them getting a message saying, in effect, “this page does not appear.” |
 
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