Quote Originally Posted by edhewitt View Post
If someone was going to do this then my first question would be why target a shaving forum? Then my second would be if someone was targeting a shaving forum, why the personal message section only?
1: Could be a disgruntled, banned former member?

2: It's not just the messaging system, that just happens to be the most obvious system failure. I also mentioned that SRP as a whole is intermittent, for me. Why the message system as the first casualty? Probably much lower on the priority list. As it is not a core/necessary process for the functionality of the forum, it would be one of the last things that the system would try to process during a time of abnormally high resource usage.

Just like a year or two ago, when some script kiddies kept Xbox Live offline/unusable for the better part of the holiday season. If Microsoft managed to get the service back online, the "social" functions were among the last things to come back online. One of the first things was streaming. So if multiplayer was still down, you could still YouTube/Netflix.